Question 1

what is cultural health?

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School topic: If you start treating sick people, you'll quickly discover that people from cultures other than your own often (not always) have attitudes and beliefs and behaviors that are quite different from yours and that make a difficult situation even more difficult. "Cultural health" is a term for a course that teaches you to be diplomatic so you can get the job done. If not ideological, it can be useful.

Question 2

what are different aspects of cultural health?

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Academic discipline: What this actually means is teaching you how to communicate productively with people from &quot;other cultures&quot; who come to you for health care. You&#x27;ll learn to be a diplomat in the face of what you may see as appalling cruelty, ignorance, and backwardness -- or amazing courage and kindness. There are tricks to getting folks to accept what they need to be healthy using your science.

Question 3

can you tell me how are bacteriophage cultured?

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In bacteria: Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Bacteriophages cannot be cultured per se. But multiplication of bacteriophages can be accomplished by growing these viruses in bacterial cultures.

Question 4

how can someone care for their cultural health?

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What's that?: "Cultural health" is a movement to educate physicians, nurses, and other caregivers about how to communicate effectively with people whose cultures have different ideas, attitudes, practices and behaviors. While terminology may vary -- certainly ideologies with respect to "culture" do -- I'm not aware that one has healthy or unhealthy "culture". Focus on understanding others, it's a good thing.

Question 5

what is the medical definition of cultural health?

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WHO: There is only one definition of health that was enunciated by the WHO in 1948. Please go to this site for the definition:
http://who.int/about/definition/en/print.html

Question 6

how does culture affect your understanding of health?

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Complicated: Every culture has ideas about what causes disease and what it means. I generally reject unscientific ideas as simply untrue, but a physician must meet people on their own terms to be effective. A patient may think illness is "God's punishment / test", "from thinking bad thoughts", "from being weak", "caused by evil spirits" or caused by modern medical or food technology / immunizations or anything

Question 7

some cultures eat insects. is that nutritious? is that safe?

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Yes: Cultures where there's no a lot of protein available in the diet for whatever reason get it where they can. Especially, some grasshoppers and locusts are considered a delicacy in some of the resource-poor parts of the world

Question 8

can you tell me how modern world and culture lead to disease?

Accepted Answer

Unclear question: Modern or ancient, current or old culture, all have been associated with diseases. The main disease of the modern world and culture is due to inactivity and overeating resulting in obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, strokes, arthritis etc.

Question 9

how does culture shape one's understanding of health and disease?

Accepted Answer

Huge question: Each of us are taught ideas about healthy practices and the causes and meaning of sickness that are outside of science. A person may be taught that disease is divine punishment, that a certain condition (even something like being red-headed or left-handed) is something one needs to be terribly ashamed of, that scientific medicine is against "the true religion", and so forth.

Question 10

what's the best yogurt brand that has the most live cultures in it?

Accepted Answer

Any: As long as it is non-pasteurized cultured yogurt it will contain millions of bacteria.  No one brand is substantially different than the others.

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