CORE VALUES + FILIPINO CULTURE & HEALTH BENEFITS

Diversity

Understanding different backgrounds

Integrity

Doing what is right even without supervision

Excellence

Providing high-quality care

Caring

Showing empathy and compassion

Justice

Ensuring fairness in healthcare delivery

Humoral (Hot-Cold) Theory

FILIPINO CULTURE AND HEALTH BELIEFS

• illness is believed to come from sudden shifts between hot and cold environments

PASMA

FILIPINO CULTURE AND HEALTH BELIEFS

Caused by “exposure to cold while hot”

Due to hot-cold imbalance

Naturalistic Causes

FILIPINO CULTURE AND HEALTH BELIEFS

Illness from natural forces like drafts, weather changes, stress, or genetics

Personalistic Causes

FILIPINO CULTURE AND HEALTH BELIEFS

Illness attributed to supernatural beings or punishment such as

• evil spirits

• Sorcery

• Curses

• Protections includes amulets and faith healers

Mystical Causes

FILIPINO CULTURE AND HEALTH BELIEFS

Illness due to:

• ancestral spirits

• Soul loss “bangungot”

• Unfinished obligations treated by babaylan or herbolaryo

Fatalistic Resignation (Bahala Na)

FILIPINO CULTURE AND HEALTH BELIEFS

The view that illness and suffering are unavoidable predestined will of God

Flushing

TREATMENT CONCEPTS

vomits, diarrhea

Or removing toxins

Heating

TREATMENT CONCEPTS

balancing hot-cold state

Protection

TREATMENT CONCEPTS

Safeguards body’s boundaries from outside influences

• using rituals or amulets for safety

Red thread

COMMON SUPERSTITION

gets rid/removes of hiccups

Frog urine

COMMON SUPERSTITIONS

causes warts