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Title: Sociocultural Aspects of MaternalChild Health


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Sociocultural Aspects of Maternal-Child Health
  • Presented by
  • Chris Hicks

2
National Goals
  • Increase to 90 the proportion of all pregnant
    women who receive prenatal care in the first
    trimester of pregnancy
  • Increase to 90 the proportion of babies aged 18
    months younger who receive primary care
    services

3
  • Increase to 75 the proportion of mothers who
    breast feed their babies early in postpartal
    period
  • Increase to 50 the proportion of mothers who
    continue to breast feed their babies until 5 to 6
    months of age

4
Barriers to these Goals
  • Lack of access of health care
  • Not placing healthcare as a high priority
  • Lack of knowledge
  • Cultural beliefs

5
Nurses Goals
  • Understand why people respond the way they do to
    preventative health or illness
  • Want to respect individual differences cultural
    beliefs
  • Establish rapport, effective communication,
    teachable moments

6
  • Assist in change in behavior to a more healthy
    behavior

7
Terms
  • Ethnicity cultural group into which person is
    born
  • Culture View of the world set of traditions
    passed to future generations
  • Cultural values Preferred ways of acting based
    on those traditions

8
  • Mores/Norms usual values of the group
  • Taboos actions not acceptable to a culture
  • Stereotyping expecting people to act in a
    characteristic manner without regard to
    individual characteristics

9
  • Ethnocentrism belief that ones own culture is
    superior to all others
  • Cultural Competence integration of cultural
    elements to enhance communication work
    effectively with clients

10
Communication Patterns
  • Language
  • Touch
  • Eye Contact

11
Conversational Space
  • Interview
  • Assessment

12
Time Orientation
  • Appointments/Schedules
  • Past/Present/Future

13
Work Orientation
  • Product
  • Means to an end

14
Family Orientation
  • Types of family structure
  • Influence of family
  • Identification of roles of family members

15
Male-Female Roles
  • Dominant figure
  • Participation in providing healthcare

16
Beliefs
  • Religious
  • Health
  • Nutrition

17
Pain Responses
  • Individual/Cultural
  • Pain threshold
  • Pain Tolerance

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