Culture and Healthcare Assignment

Running head: Culture and Health
Culture and Health
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1. Culture also affects health care delivery. This is due to the fact that cultural bias might occur
in a different health related preferences and the perceptions. One’s culture can influence the
type of care, due to the healthcare perception of the health care professionals (Aldousari,
2015).Health care delivery can be delayed or affected by the linguistic difference between the
two cultures.
Culture affects the quality of the health outcome of an individual, as it affects the perception
of health, illness, death and beliefs about illness, beliefs about different causes of diseases and
the way hoe illnesses and pain are perceived in a culture (Aldousari, 2015). Culture also
influences the life style and the food habits of a person. For the example traditional food of some
cultures might not be suitable for people having diabetes or someone having bad cardiovascular
health. Thus culture affects the health of an individual.
For example, while planning for a discharge of an aboriginal patient, referrals can be given of
those services that follows aboriginal values or consists of aboriginal health care professionals,
such that don’t hesitate to approach them (Darnell & Hickson, 2015). This is due to the fact that
aboriginal patients are likely to quit westernized modes of treatments for racism of
discrimination. Again, aboriginal community largely relies on the concepts of spiritual healers,
hence the care plan might contain recommendations about spiritual healing in palliative care
patients.
2. Cultural diversity at workplace and its adaptation can have a number of advantages, like I
improves the productivity, the culture of the company, retention of the employees, helps to
fight biases and introduce innovative ideas for the betterment of the organization (Darnell &

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Hickson, 2015). Hence, adaptation to the culture is required ensuring the sustainability of
employees of different culture.
Cultural adaptations in the health care system enhances communication between the clients
and assures clients that they or their culture are being valued for. Cultural adaptations includes
provision of interpreters for helping patients with different linguistic background. Provision of
information in more than one language posted on the bulletin board. The health workforce
should also contain scopes for health care professionals of different linguistic background.
Cultural adaptation is crucial to provide a patient centered care, because patients might have
different cultures and acceptance of their culture is essential for providing a patient centered care
(Darnell & Hickson, 2015). Patient centered care involves addressing distinct grievances of each
of the patients. Provision of care that is culturally appropriate means that health care providers
and the organization are sensitive to the cultural distinction between the patients (Kamrul, Malin
& Ramsden, 2014). In order to do this the health care provides needs to understand many words
describing culture and effects of culture. Some of the examples of cultural adaptations includes
examining the personal values, beliefs and assumptions of the patients.
One example of cultural adaptation is can be provision of interpreters for aboriginal
people, such that they can be educated about health in their own reliable language (Hole, 2017).
3. In response to the racism and discrimination faced by indigenous people The Congress of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) and the Nursing
and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) have given a joint statement on culturally
sensitive practice. According to this statement nurses and the midwives are legally and