Cross-Cultural Health Perspectives



Cross-Cultural Health Perspectives

Introduction

This paper is about the health and deferent factors associated with it. We will be discussing some of these factors that include health beliefs, social factors and cultural competence.

Health beliefs

All our daily activities are culturally conditioned. Culture shapes our behaviors homogenizing social behaviors. Humans act based on a specific health culture, share a number of basic principles that allow us to integrate healthy in the immediate social system. Social acceptance happens to respect these principles and make them visible to others. Culture is a variable that is used to explain health inequalities.

Given their socio-cultural belonging different ...