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