Cultural Diversity In Health And Illness - 7th edition

Dr. Rachel E. Spector has been a student of culturally diverse HEALTH and ILLNESS beliefs and practices for 35 years and has researched and taught courses on culture and HEALTH care for the same time span. Dr. Spector has had the opportunity to work in many different communities, including the American Indian and Hispanic communities in Boston, Massachusetts. Her studies have taken her to many places: most of the United States, Canada, and Mexico; several European countries, including Denmark, England, Finland, Iceland, Italy, France, Russia, Spain, and Switzerland; Israel and Pakistan; and Australia and New Zealand. She was fortunate enough to collect traditional amulets and remedies from many of these diverse communities and to meet practitioners of traditional HEALTH care in several places. She was instrumental in the creation and presentation of the exhibit ''Immigrant HEALTH Traditions'' at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, May 1994 through January 1995. She and has exhibited HEALTH-related objects in several other settings. Recently, she served as a Colaboradora Honorifica (Honorary Collaborator) in the University of Alicante in Alicante, Spain, and Tamulipus, Mexico. In 2006, she was a Lady Davis Fellow in the Henrietta Zold-Hadassah Hebrew University School of Nursing in Jerusalem, Israel. This text was translated into Spanish by Maria Munoz and published in Madrid by Prentice Hall as Las Culturas de la SALUD in 2003. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Scholar in Transcultural Nursing Society. The Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, the state organization of the American Nurses' Association, honored her as a ''Living Legend'' in 2007. In 2008 she was recognized by the American Nurses' Association for her work in Human Rights.

Table of Contents

A Word About Health

Unit I Cultural Foundations 1

Ch. 1 Cultural Heritage and History 3

Ch. 2 Diversity 31

Ch. 3 Health and Illness 48

Unit II Health Domains 71

Ch. 4 Health Traditions 74

Ch. 5 Healing Traditions 107

Ch. 6 Familial Health Traditions 147

Ch. 7 Health Care Delivery and Issues 167

Unit III Health and Illness Panoramas 201

Ch. 8 Health and Illness in the American Indian and Alaska Native Population 204

Ch. 9 Health and Illness in the Asian Populations 231

Ch. 10 Health and Illness in the Black Population 258

Ch. 11 Health and Illness in the Hispanic Populations 283

Ch. 12 Health and Illness in the White Populations 315

App. A Selected Key Terms Related to Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness 346

App. B Calendar: Religious Holidays That Change Dates 355

App. C Suggested Course Outline 357

App. D Suggested Course Activity - Urban Hiking 363

App. E Heritage Assessment Tool 365

App. F Quick Guide for CulturalCare 368

App. G Data Resources 370

Bibliography 375

Index 395