multicultural health

asian

Time is many things

African American , latino

Present oriented, relaxed sense of time

European american

Time is linear, be punctual

cancer

Asian americans

•  Often missed at the screening stage - cultural barriers & healthcare literacy 

• Biggest health concerns: _______ & heart disease … obesity 

• women longest life expectancy

breast

hispanic/latino Americans

Health concerns: _____- cancer, heart disease, copd 

diabetes

Native American

• Biggest health concerns 

  • _______

  • Obesity 

  • Nutrition & lack of physical activity 

  • Tobacco cessation, mental health

  • Alzheimers

obesity

African American

Biggest health concerns: _____ (higher than in white pop), heart disease, cancer

heart disease

European Americans

Biggest health concerns: ____ _______ & cancer

rumspringa

amish Americans

• _____: amish teenagers try things previously unexperienced 

• Health: sin causes illness; holistic/natural/herbal/folk medicine 

  • Limited prenatal care & home births

lucky

romani Americans

Health: Illness comes from impurity and fortune; resistant to immunizations; high fat and salt diet; large, fat person is _______

sin

Arab Americans

• Good health through hygiene and healthy diet 

• Traditional healing with good 

• Stigma - low screening rates (modesty) 

• Illness an atonement for ___ → receive illness & death with patience & prayer 

• Allopathic medicine, advanced knowledge of medical sciences

108,700

asian American income ______: highest) but LARGEST income divide (poverty in many)

81060

white income: ____ (second highest)

62,000

hispanic income: _______ (3rd highest)

52,860

African american income:  $_____(second to lowest)

52,810

Native American income: _____ (lowest)