Description
Several cultural and social factors may influence a patient’s experience with their illness.
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Socioeconomic status
Immigration status
Language
Religious traditions
Worldview
Family relationships
Beliefs about the supernatural world
Fatalism
Environmental impacts
Food intake
Understanding of the causation of illness
1. From the list above please select three (3) factors and give examples for each factor
selected how social and cultural factors could shape the patient’s health-related
experience.
2. Of the three (3) factors you selected please select one (1) factor and describe how
someone could become more culturally competent towards that factor when dealing with
their patient.
