Cultural Beliefs and Impact on Health in Sociological Context of Health and Social Care

RUNNING HEAD: CULTURAL BELIEFS AND IMPACT ON HEALTH 0
Sociological context health and social care
Cultural beliefs and impact on health
7/21/2018

CULTURAL BELIEFS AND IMPACT ON HEALTH 1
Influence of Cultural Values and Beliefs in Society
It is very well known that the culture and its beliefs has its all over impact on the society and directly
affects the behaviour of the people around. People are entitled to their own beliefs, values and
attitude, which need to be respected by the people in the society. Beliefs people hold play an
important part in the lives of the people, they may be cultural, moral or religious. Beliefs are the
medium of reflection of the nature, perception and behaviour of the people. Sometimes in order to
satisfy the needs of other people or support them one has to compromise the attitude, beliefs and
values. Contradicting the similar fact, it is not always possible to avoid the communication with
personal beliefs, values of the people; therefore it is something one should be aware about
(Helmreich and Merritt, 2017). If this needs to be considered from organisational point of view, then
one has to take care of the gestures, body language, tone, and so on while communicating with the
client. The distinction between surrounding, environment and nature are the simplest way to think
about the culture and identity of the people. People also possess some abilities due to their biology
and genetics, but it is not enough to determine the actual nature of the person, for that culture is
required. The culture and beliefs play an important role for physical, mental and emotional health of
the person. It can increase it or heal as well. In this case the nature of it does not matter, be it
personal or cultural it will influence the person in both the ways. It stimulates the physiological
changes and, modifies the behaviour of the person. The learning associated with the social aspect of
human lives and non-biological culture, is known as part of culture (Triandis, 2017).
Implications of Societal Change for the Health and social care
The change in the behaviour, attitude, and perceptions of the society leads to change in mental and
emotional health of the people in the society, the change may be positive or negative. There are
several factors which help in determining the health such as personal behaviour, health care access,
genetic inheritance and general external environment. In order to this, a research was documented