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Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness, 7/E
Rachel E. Spector, Boston College

ISBN-10: 0135035899
ISBN-13: 9780135035894

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 432 pp
Estimated Availability: 07/15/2008

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The seventh edition of this well-respected book continues to promote an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Completely revised and updated, it examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health care system and consumers, and examples of traditional health beliefs and practices among selected populations. An emphasis on the influences of recent social, political, and demographic changes helps to explore the issues and perceptions of health and illness today. An essential for any health-care professional, this book sets the standard for cultural perspectives.

Features

 

  • Guidelines for Developing Cultural Competency prvides students with a “map” that passes from broad and general dimensions of health and illness to specific images of traditional HEALTH beliefs and practices at the personal level, at the modern health care delivery level, and within traditional dimension 
  • Three Developmental Dimensions
  1. Cultural Foundations—an overview of cultural heritage and history, which illustrates the underlying concepts inherent in the diversity within our society, as well as basic elements of health and illness
  2. Domains of HEALTH—the worlds of the provider and patient as reflected in broad and general HEALTH and HEALING from a personal perspective to the perspectives of socialization into the Allopathic Philosophy and health care delivery system
  3. Panoramas of HEALTH—the worlds of traditional HEALTH beliefs and practices among selected populations. 
  • Historical Perspectives is an overview of historic sociocultural, public health, and health policy events and medical milestones from 1935 to 2007
  •  HEALTH Traditions Imagery - Symbolic images used to create the linkages from chapter to chapter; the HEALTH (HEALTH, when written this way, is defined as the balance of the person, both within one’s being— physical, mental, spiritual—and in the outside world—natural, familial and communal, metaphysical) images were selected to awaken students to the richness of a given heritage and the health/HEALTH beliefs, as well as practices inherent within both modern and traditional cultures
  • Companion Web Site at www.prenhall.com/spector - provides students with activities, fill-in the-blanks, NCLEX-style review questions, and MediaLink applications.
  • Online Course Management Systems - available online companions for schools using course management systems to accompany Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness, seventh edition.

Pocket Guide to Assessment and Health Tradition now available on the Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/spector

 

  • New Research on Culture feature depicting recent studies related to cultural competence

     

  • New photographs displaying examples and icons of various cultures

     

  • New learning outcomes at the beginning of every chapter

     

  • Expanded content on the influence of spirituality and religion on health in cultural contexts

     

  • Updated chapter on the health care delivery system including discussions of barriers and alternatives

     

     

    • Contents

    PREFACE

    A WORD ABOUT HEALTH

     

    UNIT I CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS

    CHAPTER 1 Cultural Heritage and History

    National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in CULTURALCARE

    Heritage Consistency

    Acculturation Themes

    Ethnocultural Life Trajectories

    Commingling Variables

    Cultural Conflict

    Cultural Phenomena Affecting Health

     

    CHAPTER 2 Diversity

    Census 2000

    Immigration

    Poverty

     

    CHAPTER 3 Health and Illness

    Health

    Illness

     

    UNIT II HEALTH DOMAINS

    CHAPTER 4 Health Traditions

    HEALTH and ILLNESS

    HEALTH Traditions Model

    HEALTH Protection

    Health/HEALTH Care Choices

    Folk Medicine

    Health/HEALTH Care Philosophies

     

    CHAPTER 5 Healing Traditions

    HEALING

    Ancient Forms of HEALING

    Religion and HEALING

    HEALING and Today’s Beliefs

    Ancient Rituals Related to the Life Cycle

     

    CHAPTER 6 Familial Health Traditions

    Familial Health/HEALTH Traditions

    Consciousness Raising

     

    CHAPTER 7 Health Care Delivery and Issues

    The Health Care Provider’s Culture

    Health Care Costs

    Trends in Development of the Health Care System

    Common Problems in Health Care Delivery

    Pathways to Health Services

    Barriers to Health Care

    Medicine as an Institution of Social Control

     

    UNIT III HEALTH AND ILLNESS PANORAMAS

    CHAPTER8 HEALTH and ILLNESS in the American Indian and Alaska Native Population

    Background

    Traditional Definitions of HEALTH and ILLNESS

    Traditional Methods of HEALING

    Current Health Care Problems

    The Indian Health Service

     

    CHAPTER9 HEALTH and ILLNESS in the Asian Populations

    Background

    Traditional Definitions of HEALTH and ILLNESS

    Traditional Methods of HEALTH Maintenance and Protection

    Traditional Methods of HEALTH Restoration

    Current Health Problems

     

    CHAPTER 10 HEALTH and ILLNESS in the Black Population

    Background

    Traditional Definitions of HEALTH and ILLNESS

    Traditional Methods of HEALTH Maintenance and Protection

    Traditional Methods of HEALTH Restoration

    Current Health Problems

     

    CHAPTER 11 HEALTH and ILLNESS in the Hispanic Populations

    Background

    Mexicans

    Puerto Ricans

     

    CHAPTER 12 HEALTH and ILLNESS in the White Populations

    Background

    German Americans

    Italian Americans

    Polish Americans

     

    EPILOGUE

    APPENDIX A Selected Key Terms Related to Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness

    APPENDIX B Calendar: Religious Holidays That Change Dates

    APPENDIX C Suggested Course Outline

    APPENDIX D Suggested Course Activity–Urban Hiking

    APPENDIX E Heritage Assessment Tool

    APPENDIX F Quick Guide for CULTURALCARE

    APPENDIX G Data Resources

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    INDEX

     

      For undergraduate and graduate courses in patient care and basic health related profession programs, as well as medical, social work, and other health disciplines.

      This text is based on the idea of “CulturalCare”, which is the concept that promotes health care as culturally sensitive, culturally appropriate, and culturally competent. Stressing that CulturalCare is both content and process, the text explores how this concept is essential in order to meet the complex health care needs of patients and their families and communities. Using a practical and student-friendly approach, the Sixth Edition examines how health care can cross social and cultural boundaries of a patient while assessing that patient's particular social environment as it relates to their health issues.

      Rich in pedagogy, the text includes case studies, illustrations, tables and a companion website, material related to demographics, immigration, poverty, and folk traditions are all covered. There is a shrink-wrapped book of assessment tools and guides included.

    • 0130493791Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness, 6/E
      Spector
      © 2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 400 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0130493791 | ISBN-13: 9780130493798
      Brief Description

    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.

    The seventh edition of this well-respected book continues to promote an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Completely revised and updated, it examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health care system and consumers, and examples of traditional health beliefs and practices among selected populations. An emphasis on the influences of recent social, political, and demographic changes helps to explore the issues and perceptions of health and illness today. An essential for any health-care professional, this book sets the standard for cultural perspectives.

     

    FEATURES INCLUDE:

    • Pocket Guide to Assessment and Health Tradition available online for downloading
    • Companion Website www.prenhall.com/spector with activities, test questions, and more
    • New Research on Culture feature depicting recent studies related to cultural competence
    • New photographs displaying examples and icons of various cultures
    • New learning outcomes at the beginning of every chapter
    • Expanded content on the influence of spirituality and religion on health in cultural contexts
    • Updated chapter on the health care delivery system including discussions of barriers and alternatives
    • Demographic background discussion of each of the U.S. Census Bureau's categories of the population for a statistical overview of the diversity of patient populations

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      The seventh edition of this well-respected book continues to promote an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Completely revised and updated, it examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health care system and consumers, and examples of traditional health beliefs and practices among selected populations. An emphasis on the influences of recent social, political, and demographic changes helps to explore the issues and perceptions of health and illness today. An essential for any health-care professional, this book sets the standard for cultural perspectives.

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      Spector
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