Purnell Model

**Purnell Model**

providing foundation for understanding the var. attributes of diff. culture

**Purnell Model**

allowing healthcare providers to adequately view patients attributes = incitement, experiences, notions about healthcare and illness

**Purnell Model**

can be used in clinical practice

**Purnell Model**

formal and continuing education, in research and in administration and management of healthcare services

a framework for all healthcare providers for all cultures of patients. All different persons having different cultural backgrounds

What is the Purpose of the Purnell Model

Global Society

* welfare and natural disaster
* identified and specified community

Overview and Heritage

* country of derivation
* current, past residence, economics, politics
* geographical influence

Communication

primary language, dialect circumstantial effectiveness and convenience of the language, paralinguistics differences and nonverbal communication

Family Roles & Organization

* who heads the household in terms of gender and age
* affected by goals and priorities, developmental tasks, social status, and alternative lifestyles.
* child marriages, divorces, extended family

**Workforce issues**

acculturation, autonomy, and the presence of language barriers

**Biocultural Ecology**

the things you can and cannot control towards the enivronment

**Lifestyle**

cultural practices and behaviors that can generally be controlled.

**Environment**

external environment and situations over which the individual has little or no control.

**Genetics**

 conditions are caused by genes.

**High Risk Health Behaviors**

* substance use such as tobacco, alcohol or recreational drugs
* physical activities and levels of safety and precautionary measures

**Nutrition**

* meaning of food, common foods and rituals
* nutritional deficiencies and food limitations; and the use of food for health

**Pregnancy and Childbearing Practices**

culturally sanctioned and unsanctioned fertility practices; views on pregnancy; and prescriptive, restrictive taboo

**Death Rituals**

* how society views death
* euthanasia
* rituals to prepare for death burial practice and bereavement behaviors

**Spirituality**

formal religious beliefs related to faith and affiliation and the use of prayer; behavior practices that give meaning to life, and indiv. sources of strength

**Health Care Practices**

traditional magico-religious, and biomedical beliefs and practices; indiv. responsibility for health; self-medicating practices; views on mental illness chronicity and rehabilitation; acceptance of blood and blood products

**Heath Care Practitioners**

status, use and perceptions of traditional, magico-religious and biomedical health care providers; and the gender of the health care provider