BHS 414 6: Reflecting on the Significance of Incorporating Cultural Perspectives to Health Care Practices

Culture and Health Care
Reflecting on the Significance of
Incorporating Cultural Perspectives to Health Care Practices
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In health care practice, health care providers and other health specialists are not contained to conventional healing methods only. Many underlying perspectives present in any communities must be regarded as important particularly on designing health care programs and similar framework. In the course, I learned that various health practices and beliefs exist across cultures. Many of the different cultural perspectives have their own health traditions and methods. It is important that these traditions are taken into consideration especially when a large population is at stake because of certain health issues. More likely, health care providers should be the ones to see the need to study other cultures in order to be more effective in giving health services. Being more open-minded and strategic in studying and applying health care services is one of the most significant roles of the health care providers. In this way, they will be more effective and more capable of giving services to people from different cultural and social backgrounds.
As various cultures differ from each other, many kinds of health practices can be enumerated coming from different ideological and practical background. In a sense, these various cultural accounts on health traditions must be recognized as a spectrum of different health care alternatives available for all of us. Though most of the times, clash of political conjectures happens in choosing the ‘best` health care option, we see that other forms also have their own areas of concern and applicability. By comparing and contrasti...