Essay On Hispanic Culture And Health

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Hispanic Culture and Health: Role of Community Health Nurse
Laurent Kimwama
RN-BSN Program
University of Central Missouri

The diverse population that I wish to talk about is the Latino/Hispanics .Leininger’s theory of culture care diversity and universality was aimed at providing culturally competent nursing care by understand similarities and differences of various cultures.(Nies & McEwen,2011,p-219).She came up with transcultural nursing which community health nurses are expected to understand and use when interacting with the community(Hispanic population).According to Leininger’s, cultural specific is behaviors, values or way of life that is unique to a particular population or culture. On the other hand, “Culture universal” refers to behaviors, values, way of life, beliefs that are shared and similar among different population or cultures (Nies & McEwen, 2011, p-219).Cultural specifics for the Hispanic population include: the use of folk healers in time of sickness, the belief in the “hot” and “cold” theory of diseases. Culture universal for the Hispanic population include; believing in religion (most are Roman Catholics)

Nutrition is an important aspect affecting the Hispanics health. Hispanic foods vary depending on their countries of origin but main ones include, rice, beans, and tortillas. Lard is used to prepare the food. On the other hand, assimilation and acculturation has led to changes in the traditional Hispanic diets, making processed and fast food more common. Fast foods both American style such as hamburgers and Mexican such as tacos de fajita are enjoyed by many(De Paula, Lagana & Gonzalez-Ramirez,2009).This has resulted to obesity being a major problem for the Hispanic population. This h...

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Nies, M., McEwen, M.(2011).Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations(5th ed.).St.Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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