Exam 2: Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices

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The Japanese diet based on brown rice, miso soup, and vegetables that was popularized in Europe as promoting health in the 1920s is called​

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Matching -Fate determines what happens

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Matching -Indirectness/ritual/"face"

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The future orientation of the biomedical model expects patients to put up with a high level of pain and discomfort in the present for the future health benefit.

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Traditional views of health and illness often encompass a mind-body duality.

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"Hot" and "cold" associations between food and health would suggest that the hot and cold aspects of food should be balanced to account for personal constitution and the weather.

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What are three examples of complementary, alternative, or unconventional healing therapies? What is done and what is the cultural explanation of why they are expected to work?

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When a health care provider imposes her or his beliefs, practices, and values on a patient from another culture, what is this termed?​

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In biomedical culture, three causes of disease are identified:​

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How might "cultural imposition" affect a new immigrant's interaction with the standard health care system in the United States?

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The use of astrology for determining the health status of a person coincides with what belief about sickness?​

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Matching -Informality

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The ancient Asian Indian system of healing is called​

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The consecutive or concurrent use of multiple health care systems is called​

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In what type of medicine is the body aided to heal itself through non-invasive natural treatments?​

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Approximately how much do Americans currently spend on complementary and alternative medicine annually?​

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During 2007-2008, the National Center for Health Statistics in the United States reported that the average daily energy intake for women was _______ kcalories (kcal).

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Healers in the American South who specialize in communicating with spirits or saints through ceremonial invocation and may also use herbal preparations are called​

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The biomedical model holds that there are three levels of possible causes of disease.List these levels and give an example of each.

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Sympathetic medicine and sympathetic magic use the word sympathetic to mean​

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