![]() ![]() Culture can influence socio-economic status and affect a patient’s coping mechanisms. ![]() It affects perceptions of health, illness and death, beliefs about causes and treatment of disease, approaches to health promotion, how illness and pain are experienced and expressed, where, when and how patients seek help, and the types of treatment patients prefer and adhere to. The influence of culture on health is vast.Knowing the difference can help health professionals with diagnosis and with tailoring a treatment plan that includes a larger or smaller group. One way of thinking about cultures is whether they are primarily ‘collectivist’ or ‘individualist’.They essentially belong to both-often because their parents want children to continue be part of the ‘old’ culture. Children often struggle with being ‘between cultures’–balancing the ‘old’ and the ‘new’.It increases when a group migrates to and incorporates components of a new culture into their culture of origin. The speed of cultural evolution varies.Culture is a pattern of ideas, customs and behaviours shared by a particular people or society.Community Resources Serving Newcomer Families.Symptoms, Signs and Clinical Problems: A tool for differential diagnosis.Taking a History with Newcomer Children: A 1-page guide.Health Evaluation of the International Adoptee.Community Resources for Immigrant and Refugee Youth.Immigrant adolescent health: Background and context.Immigrant Adolescent Health: Guidance for clinicians. ![]()
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