Exam 2: Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices

To relieve yin (too much cold), a small, burning bundle of herbs is used to restore balance of energy.What is this procedure called?​

What term is used for the entire disease-illness process?​

The American majority value that all people should have equal access to health care is shared by almost all cultures worldwide.

Which cultural group is an example of one that believes a person's family should be involved in all health care decisions?​

What is the term for addressing the experience of illness, alleviating the infirmities of the sick, and responding to the personal, familial, and social issues surrounding sickness?​

Cultural imposition can be defined as a tendency for health personnel to impose their beliefs, practices, and values upon another culture because they believe their views are superior.

Approximately what percentage of adults in the U.S.used some form of CAM during the year 2007?​

The yin and yang system of dietary planning is dominant in what cultural group?​

What type of medicine uses pulses associated with internal organs, each with its own characteristics?​

What act defines dietary supplements as separate from food and drugs?​

Which of the following would be an example of sickness due to the patient?​

Cultures use different therapies to cure illness.The practice of _____ is based on the tenant that "like cures like."​

Wind or bad air is of particular concern in many cultural groups because it can enter the body through ________, causing illness.

The number of adults over 65 years of age in the U.S.is expected to double by what year?​

An envious gaze that is believed by many to project harm on another person is called​

Culture-bound syndromes are​

Invoking supernatural forces, or ________, is a frequent social cause of sickness.

Asians often believe that the yin and the yang of their surroundings and environment need to be kept in balance for cosmic and personal harmony and health.

For many biomedical health care providers, an illness isn't real unless it is clinically significant; emotional or social issues are the domain of other specialists.

The view of an individual's relationship to fate is seldom related to the perception of time.