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Cultural Health Presentation

The objectives of this presentation are to:

1. Investigate an area of personal interest related to cultural health.

2. Locate and identify resources that providers may access when caring for a specific cultural or subcultural population.

3. Investigate opportunities and challenges that a specific culture or subculture face in obtaining and utilizing unbiased healthcare.

4. Report specific beliefs, customs, and behavioral patterns of a culture or subculture.

5. Relate strategies to address the unique health care needs among various cultures or subcultures.

6. Gain experience with peer and self-evaluation by reviewing and scoring fellow students’ presentations as well as your own.

You will research health issues related to a specific cultural or sub-cultural group of your choosing and then share what you have learned with others in this class via a PowerPoint, Google Slides or Prezi presentation.

Read through the following instructions, outline and scoring rubric in this document to help guide your research and presentation development. You will use the scoring rubric to conduct four peer evaluations in both Canvas (1st step) and Google via a link (2nd step), as well as a self-evaluation in Google via the same link (2nd step).

Instructions:

In order to learn more about the health and illness aspects of other cultures and subgroups, you will develop a presentation using PowerPoint, Google Slides or Prezi and post in the Cultural Practices Presentations assignment in Canvas to share with classmates. You will be randomly assigned four of your classmates’ presentations to conduct peer evaluations, as well as own self-evaluation, and your final score will be an average of these individual reviews.

Step 1: Choose a topic from among the suggested cultural groups or subgroups listed below (or feel free to select another not listed that interests you). As you consider your topic, know in advance that you will be required to interview at least one person who is either from that culture or who has first-hand experience with the culture (or find a recorded interview to use in its place). For example, if you chose the sex-trade sub-culture, you might interview an experienced health care provider (e.g. counselor or public health specialist). Interviews can serve to provide valuable information in which to create the hypothetical character, as well as supplement information on other areas of the outline, including provision of culturally competent care.

If you are doing a presentation of a culture outside of the US, you will want to ensure you provide a thorough background of the society, values, majority beliefs, and historical context to ensure that the groundwork is laid for understanding the culture or subculture of your choosing, which can include groups both in the United States and in their native countries. It is essential to understand the context that cultures operate within.

Suggested example cultural groups include:

“Health and Illness in..”

· Native American/Alaska Native/Yaqui

· Caucasian (Be specific: American South, European Immigrants, etc.)

· African American

· African immigrant (be specific: Ethiopian, Sundanese, Congolese, etc.)

· Asian (be specific: Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Hmong, East Indian, etc.)

· Hispanic (be specific: Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Guatemalan, Peruvian, Nicaraguan, etc.)

· Pacific and Hawaiian Islanders

· Middle Eastern (be specific: Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli, Afghani, etc.)

· European (be specific: Bosnian, Russian, French, German, Italian, etc.)

 

Topics can also include subcultures, which do not necessarily have an ethnic or racial component, but share a common lifestyle or interests.  Examples include:

 

· Pennsylvania Dutch (Amish)

· Jewish

· Mormon

· Sufi

· Seventh-day Adventist

· Runaway youth

· Single parents (Mothers or fathers)

· Foster children

· Adoptive parents/adoptive children

· Military (Active military, military spouses, military families, etc.)

· LGBTQIA+

· Transgender

· Urban Street Culture

· Communities of illegal behavior (be specific: sex trade, drug market, or gangs)

· Athletes (be specific: body builders, distance runners, triathletes, gymnasts, etc.)

• Investigate an area of personal interest related to cultural health.,

• Locate and identify resources that providers may access when caring for a specific cultural or subcultural population.,

• Investigate opportunities and challenges that a specific culture or subculture face in obtaining and utilizing unbiased healthcare.,

• Report specific beliefs, customs and behavioral patterns of a culture or subculture.,

• Relate strategies to address the unique health care needs among various cultures or subcultures.