Culture and Health : Assignment

Running head: CULTURALLY DIVERSE PERSPECTIVE IN HEALTH CARE
CULTURALLY DIVERSE PERSPECTIVE IN HEALTH CARE
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Introduction:
According to Friedmann, Son and Saleem (2015) understanding the interrelation between
human, animal and environmental health is the central part of the strategy for survival of
mankind. One health defined is an approach to designing and implementing program and
policies, legislation and researches in legislation where different sectors communicate and work
together to gain better public health outcome (Zinsstag et al. 2015). The one health approach
acknowledges the correlation between human, animal and environmental health and believes that
ignoring one of these areas could impact on the other disciplines of health. As reported by
(Webster et al. 2016) several contributing factors are present that impact on different domains of
health and cultural practice and beliefs has been identified as one of the predominant factors that
influence the various domains of health. People from different culture contains different
perceptions regarding health and health management, hence it is important to understand the
cultural diversity while incorporating care approach. It would allow the health professionals to
introduce care that are acceptable for all (Nelson and Wilson 2018). Hence, incorporating
cultural knowledge with one health approach would enable the health professionals to enrich the
care process with cultural sensitivity and culturally safe care approach could be introduced in the
three domain of health such human, animal and environment. In this regards, this essay aims to
argue that there are certain benefits and challenges of incorporating cultural diversity in
integrated management approach across one health.
Discussion:
Many of the same kinds of microbes infect human and animal as they share ecosystem
they live. Just not the single sector is not able to reduce the issue rather a collaboration of

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different health (Hinchliffe 2015). The concept of One health initially introduced from the
research of zoonoses. However, now it integrated for interconnecting human, animal and
environment (Craddock and Hinchliffe 2015). It represented by a complex biological and social
system that involve multiple factors and process along with their interaction over time at a global
level (Hinchliffe 2015). Therefore, a culturally diverse perspective is a crucial part of One health
system approaches since it involves human, animal and environment of different culture.
However, due to the lack of literature of one health governess and sound knowledge about
culturally diverse perspective, One health system failed to provide adequate care. One health
consists of many professionals from different sectors such as animal health, public health, plant
health, and environment but due to cultural diversity, the conflict arises from every sector
(Zinsstag et al. 2015).
There are certain benefits of culturally diverse perspective in of health system. According
to Taylor (2017), value-based care is genuine need of every human and animals where health
professionals and care team prioritize need and make them feel comfortable in health premises
(Sandøe et al. 2014). Culturally diverse perspective has some social benefits such as it improves
the mutual respect and understanding between patient and health professionals from different
fields(McElroy 2018). It also improves the relationship between health professionals from a
different field that in turn help to effectively detect and prevent outbreaks (Prat, Hayler and
Wells 2014). World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) suggested that culturally diverse
perspective helps every professional to become transparent to individuals to reduce other public
threats at the human-animal-ecosystem (Gebreyes et al. 2015).However, It is beneficial for
aboriginal individuals because cultural competence provides them with an opportunity to gain
primary and mortality rate decreases (Shallcross and Davies 2014). One health system is