The United States consists of many cultures and ethnic background. Usually people call this country as Melting Pot in which all cultures exist from different parts of the world and they all live with freedom of choice. No restrictions of religion, language, food, ethnicity, beliefs and values. All cultures have rights to practice their ethnic background. In today’s paper will discuss how people from different cultures and traditions perceive health differently using heritage assessment tool and address health maintenance, health protection and health restoration.
Heritage Assessment Tool Assessment tool is beneficial to identifying person’s culture, tradition, background, religion, language and socialization. It identifies the person as whole. The Assessment tool is a set of questions use to understand individual’s health traditions and beliefs. It reflects the person’s background and help us in understanding what is important to them when they make decisions.
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They do believe in going to the doctors when suffering but not as preventive measure. Different regions believe in other sources besides going to doctors. Religious Muslims may wear a talisman containing Quranic verses when sick. These are symbols of Islamic faith, given by the Muslim Imams and adorned by people to supposedly “cure what ails them”. They additionally do Consultation with supposed “holy men” and frequent pious places to avert and remedy many physical and psychological illnesses, including those caused by ghosts and spirits. Holy water from Saint’s tombs are ingested or applied on the sick. These practices vary by edification, gregarious class, and degree of religiosity; many from professional families’ lean toward Western medical practices and do not visit