Summary
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Edited by Robert M. Huff, Michael V. Kline, and Darleen V. Peterson, the Third Edition of <strong>Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations</strong> offers both students and practitioners an indispensable resource on assessment and implementation guidelines for promoting health and enhancing behaviors that optimize health in any cultural community.
Cross-Cultural Concepts of Health and Disease
Cross-Cultural Concepts of Health and Disease
Chapter Objectives
On completion of this chapter, the health promotion student and practitioner will be able to
- Describe the relationship of culture to health beliefs and practices in a variety of multicultural settings
- Describe and provide examples of explanatory models used by different ethnic/cultural groups living in the United States
- Identify and discuss four lay theories of illness with at least one example for each theory
- Identify and discuss at least three different types of traditional healers who can be found practicing in the United States
Health is one consequence of the balance between yin and yang energy forces, which rule the world, and an imbalance ...
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