Culture and Healthcare

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Culture and Healthcare

Introduction

There are many cultural choices that people make which become risky. However, people do not usually consider these choices as risk and enjoy them as lifestyle/ one of these choices is smoking. Today, there are more than one billion tobacco smokers in the world, and it is estimated that smoking kills almost five million people worldwide annually (Gow, 1999). Despite the fact that women comprise only 20 percent of the world's smokers, tobacco use among women is increasing, as tobacco companies have intensified their marketing efforts to capture this burgeoning market. Still, men are more likely to smoke than women, poor people are more likely to smoke than the wealthy, and people in developing countries are more likely to smoke than those in developed countries.

Definition of Culture

The concept of culture has been throughout history subjected again and again from different sides of a determination. Depending on the press in it that each living self-understanding and the zeitgeist of a period of, the rule status or demanding certain classes or scientific and philosophical anthropological views. The range of its importance is correspondingly large: it ranges from a purely descriptive (descriptive towards prescriptive () usage ("The culture of the time.") normative) when the latter are connected with the concept of culture claims to be fulfilled (Eyler, 2002).

The term can refer to a narrow group of people, which is attributed to culture alone, or it denotes that which belongs to all people as human beings, insofar as they are, for example from the animal. While the narrower definition of the term usually used in a singular ('the culture') is connected, a wider definition also speak of "cultures" in the plural. For example, The corporate culture has a number of factors, such as corporate values??, working conditions, benefits, and even office buildings. Different industries have a reputation of a certain kind of corporate culture.There are other social cultural groups for example the women are more likely to smoke menthol cigarettes than men, giving menthol cigarettes an association with femininity in many cultures (Eisenbruch, 2001). Since African-American culture has a more matriarchal bent than other cultures, observers say, black males who start smoking menthols tend to have more role models for such behaviour than young white males do. The human behaviour is a product of culture within society to which he belongs, therefore, the latter largely determines how each person feels, thinks and acts. A simple example illustrating this statement is the fact that all human beings are hungry, but how, when, where and what to eat to satisfy this need varies from one society to another, and the same happens with the clothes , housing, transportation, forms of entertainment, etc. Accordingly, culture affects the needs and desires that people have, the alternatives considered to meet them and evaluates how, therefore, is a factor influencing individual purchasing decisions (Anderson, 1990).

Smoking Lifestyle choice and Health Risks

For some, smoking is an addiction, for others the pleasure of ...