Sociocultural Aspects of MaternalChild Health

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Sociocultural Aspects of Maternal-Child Health

• Presented by
• Chris Hicks

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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

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• 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

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Barriers to these Goals

• Lack of access of health care
• Not placing healthcare as a high priority
• Lack of knowledge
• Cultural beliefs

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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

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• Assist in change in behavior to a more healthy
  behavior

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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

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• 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

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

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Communication Patterns

• Language
• Touch
• Eye Contact

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Conversational Space

• Interview
• Assessment

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Time Orientation

• Appointments/Schedules
• Past/Present/Future

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Work Orientation

• Product
• Means to an end

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Family Orientation

• Types of family structure
• Influence of family
• Identification of roles of family members

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Male-Female Roles

• Dominant figure
• Participation in providing healthcare

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Beliefs

• Religious
• Health
• Nutrition

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Pain Responses

• Individual/Cultural
• Pain threshold
• Pain Tolerance

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