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Hispanic or Latino Origin and Race 2000 2010 Health care providers are entangled in the revolutionary consequences of the enormous demographic, social, and cultural changes that have occurred in the United States. Many of these changes are playing a dramatic role both in the delivery of health care to patients, their families, and communi- ties, […]

Describe the total population characteristics of the United States as pre- sented in Census 2010. Cultural Heritage and History ■ 41 Taylor, P. and Keeter, S. (2011). MILLENNIALS: A Portrait of Generation Next: Confident. Connected. Open to change. Pew Research Center. Retrieved from http://pewresearch.org/millennials, February 23, 2011. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

The following resource will be helpful in maintaining current information related to religious participation. Table 2–6 continued Box 2–1: Keeping Up The following resource will be helpful in maintaining current information related to religious participation. Pew Research Center http://pewresearch.org/topics/religion/ ■ Internet Sources Bartash, J. (2011). Digging Up U.S. Economic Trends Not Easy. Mar- ket Watch.

Health practices and remedies Know what the general health traditions are for person and question observations for validity Source: Adapted from Dresser, N. (1996). Multicultural manners. New York: Wiley. Copyright © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprinted by permission of John Wiley & Sons. Inc. Place Your Order Here!

Biological variations Food customs Know what can be eaten for certain events, what foods may be eaten together or are forbidden, and what and how utensils are used Place Your Order Here!

Space Body language and distances Know cultural and/or religious customs regarding contact, such as eye and touch, from many perspectives Communication Greetings Know the proper forms of address for people from a given culture and the ways by which people welcome one another Know when touch, such as an embrace or a handshake, is expected

Environmental Control Environmental control is the ability of members of a particular cultural group to plan activities that control nature or direct environmental factors. Included in this concept are the complex systems of traditional health and illness beliefs, the practice of folk medicine, and the use of traditional healers. Figure 2–7 illustrates how a person,

Biological Variations The several ways in which people from one cultural group differ biologically (i.e., physically and genetically) from members of other cultural groups constitute their 38 ■ Chapter 2 biological variations; for example, body build and structure, including specific bone and structural differences between groups, such as the smaller stature of Asians and skin

Communication Communication differences present themselves in many ways, including lan- guage differences, verbal and nonverbal behaviors, and silence. Language dif- ferences are possibly the most important obstacle to providing multicultural health care because they affect all stages of the patient-caregiver relationship. Social Organization The social environment in which people grow up and live plays an

Space Personal space refers to people’s behaviors and attitudes toward the space around themselves. Territoriality is the behavior and attitude people exhibit about an area they have claimed and defend or react emotionally to when others encroach on it. Both personal space and territoriality are influenced by culture, and thus different ethnocultural groups have varying