Understanding Culture in Medical Tourism by Dr Prem Jagyasi
Globalization across all sectors has brought complex cultural needs, in an already culturally diverse world. Understanding culture and behavior was important in healthcare to provide comprehensive care with a delightful experience, but it has certainly become essential in Medical Tourism as patients arrive with different cultural beliefs and from different geographies. Understanding of Culture in Medical Tourism is a two way process as the patient needs to understand the destination’s cultural beliefs as much as providers need to know and understand the patient’s cultural beliefs. —– The understanding of cultural issues in Medical Tourism (Global Healthcare) is a two way process argues Dr Prem Jagyasi, a renowned Medical Tourism expert and consultant. Several Medical Tourism organizations believe that Understanding Culture in Medical Tourism is a one way process, and that they only need to understand patient’s cultural beliefs and behaviors. However, it is also necessary for a patient to understand the culture and behavior of the destination. The provider should take the responsibility of making cultural documents related to their destination available to patients. Educating healthcare providers within a healthcare organization is a unilateral process, while educating patients, on the other hand, is a bilateral process. This will eventually bring comprehensive solutions for issues that arise from cultural diversity. While consulting within a variety of international …
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Q&A: Does your climate change belief hinge on your cultural outlook or values?
Question by Ottawa Mike: Does your climate change belief hinge on your cultural outlook or values?
According to a recent study, how you accept or reject information might have something to do with your perception of the world: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124008307&ft=1&f=1007&sc=YahooNews
Now I have a certain problem with this. Take this following statement from that article:
“Over the past few months, polls show that fewer Americans say they believe humans are making the planet dangerously warmer, despite a raft of scientific reports that say otherwise.”
I believe this effect is at least if not more pronounced in the UK (don’t know about elsewhere). So my question (i.e. my problem) is this: How could so many people have changed their minds in such a short period of time? It would be easily explained, according to that article, if they somehow changed their values. That seems unlikely, so what is another possible reason?
It appears from the following statement that social scientists can explain this:
“This puzzles many climate scientists — but not some social scientists, whose research suggests that facts may not be as important as one’s beliefs.”
Their (social scientists) thesis states that beliefs are more important than facts which usually indicates that regardless of what comes out about AGW, people would simply keep believing whatever they believe. Am I missing something here?
Best answer:
Answer by Bob
No, unless you consider a belief in science a “cultural outlook”.
I’m with the Admiral:
“I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. As I looked at it on my own, I couldn’t come to any other conclusion. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”
Admiral (ret’d) Richard Truly, shuttle astronaut, former head of NASA.
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Nice “Cultural Beliefs” photos
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Chicago: atrium, Jim R. Thompson Center, 100 W Randolf St
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photo: 10/11/2004
BIG ROUND ROOF HOLE
Standing on the southeast corner of the building, on the corner of W. Randolf St. & N. Clark St., looking up, I took this shot of the Jim R. Thompson Ctr. (Jim Thompson was an llinois state governor from 1977-1991, a member of the Republican Party, although Chicago is famous for being a political stronghold of the Democratic Party "machine.")
Helmut Jahn, a German architect, designed the building. It was opened in 1985 as the State of Illinois Center, later renamed in 1993 for Gov. Jim Thompson.
Wikipedia: Jim R. Thompson Center
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CHICAGO VS. "DOWNSTATE" ILLINOIS
Illinois culture is divided between "city" (Chicago) and everything else ("downstate"). This division is widely recognized throughout Illinois, especially in state government politics. If you can sum up the difference between the two parts of the state in terms of personalities, you could pick Richard M. Daley (mayor of Chicago: 1955-1976) as the iconic political figure of the city and Abraham Lincoln as the iconic political figure of downstate Illiniois.
The suburbs of Chicago are a neutral cultural ground between the two geographic divisions of Chicago and downstate Illinois. The suburbs mix together different characteristics of the city and downstate.
Traditionally, Chicago is an electoral bastion of the Democratic Party "machine," not only in statewide elections but also national elections. Chicago machine politics under Mayor Richard J. Daley are infamous for having "thrown" the election to a fellow Irish Catholic canidate in the 1960 U.S. Presidential elections: John F. Kennedy. The ballot returns from Chicago wards were withheld from the vote count until after ballots from downstate were counted. The suspicion is that Chicago’s Democratic Party machine stole the election by adding extra votes for Kennedy.
Of course, there are many other cultural divisions within Chicago, of course. The city is divided by race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, and every other possible division you can think of in American society. But the division between "city" and "downstate" is especially important because of how conscious people can be of it and the reflection of this cultural division in the political thinking of the state.
If Chicago is Democratic, then downstate is Republican. Again, not every Chicagoan is a Democrat. Some are Republican. Some are socialist, too, or Communist or anarchist or libertarian or, for that matter, are neo-Nazi. In other words, big cities – simply because of their large populations – contain people with many different points of view on politics, religion, or anything you can think of.
Nor is this cultural division between Chicago and downstate Illinois limited to just the poltical differences between Democrats in Chicago and Republicans downstate. This cultural division also shows other fundamental differences in temprament.
Chicago, similar to many East Coast cities, such as New York and Philadelphia, takes the view that emotions should be shown without restraint. "Deep," "heavy" emotions are to be given high regard. It’s taken for granted that the depth with which emotions are felt gives them the "weight" of seriousness.
On the old "Route 66" television series from the first half of the 1960s, the character of Buzz Murdock described everything in Chicago as being "heavy."
Nonetheless, Chicago is emotionally unrestrained only in comparison to its Midwest cultural surroundings. Chicago is notably more emotionally restrained than New York City, for example.
This attitude in East Coast cities also has a class affiliation that is much more obvious than it is in Chicago, though. It is the residents of the outer boroughs of New York City (Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island) who hold the cultural belief that their lack of emotional restraint shows "strength of character" and "heart". Manhattan is different. The outer boroughs angrily berate everybody else. They punish others with their moral judgments that hold nothing back. The more emotional pain inflicted, the better. This is mistaken as "strength of character."
Again, Manhattan is a different story. If you talk about "Manhattan" and "New York City," you are probably talking about two different groups of people. Manhattan is the great urban magnet for art, theatre, publishing, corporate headquarters, stock brokerages, banks, etc. Manhattan is stylish, sophisticated, urbane, well educated. It’s not as raw or harsh in voice or manner as the outer boroughs.
(At least, it’s not outwardly raw and harsh. There is plenty of competition in Manhattan’s "rat race". Having a college degree from a "good" school and good manners doesn’t always prevent people from becoming rats or jerks, of course.)
Without quite recognizing it perhaps, the Loop in Chicago seems to have more and more the feel of being a Manhattan. The Loop as the city’s Central Business District (CBD) has a much different feel than what is seen as the classic Chicago character: broad shouldered, rough mannered, unionized working class.
It’s as if downtown, having becoming to the city’s large tall buildings downtown has lost interest in them, taking them for granted as part of its ordinary, everyday background. "Bigness" for its own sake has lost its appeal. Downtown cares more about being "intelligent" and "creative" than in being big enough to throw your weight around and impress (intimidate) others.
"Manhattan" culture is, more or less, traditional East Coast WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) culture in one of its most sophisticated, tolerant, urbane forms. The essential characteristics of East Coast WASP culture are "open mindedness," "tolerance," and "rationality," Emotions are curbed in WASP culture for the sake of politeness.
(Of course, WASP culture as the leading culture of the East Coast is probably the dominant culture of the United States and is associated with many of the historical justices of American society. Unfortunately, it is rarely given credit for its ability to criticize and reform itself into becoming ever better versions of its former selves.)
Downstate is culturally more "masculine" than the city. In fact, downstate cultural attitudes bear a strong resemblance to the "rugged individualism" of the Rocky Mountain states of the American West (and their ideological propensity toward a laissez faire capitalist libertarianism).
2010/365/289 Remembering Granny
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It’s one day after what would have been my grandmother’s 108th birthday. This was part of the sign at an antique store in Payson called "Granny’s Attic"
I never called this as a kid, it was more of a fun name I used after I moved away to Arizona. She loved to laugh. I sure miss her, and I have not made any progress on doing the next iteration of her digital story.
Happy belated birthday, Granny. I really hold onto the cultural belief that we truly die when other people stop telling their stories.
Holy threads & Sacred trees of INDIA
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Holy threads & Sacred trees of INDIA
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EXPLORED – #250 March 2, 2010.
This was shot in a temple in Kanchipuram, a temple town near chennai in Tamilnadu,India
Indian Culture:
There are many cultural beliefs among the people of India.
One can notice yellow threads covering the trees in many temples in south india. So why do people tie holy threads to trees in south indian temples ?
In general, people tie red and yellow threads to the temple trees to get their wishes fulfilled.The south indian temples have trees where women tie a bangle with a holy thread and stick a bindi when asking for a mannat (granting of a wish)
Women who aspire for a son, tie a cradle to the tree and it is believed that most of them beget children. They untie the thread after the fulfilment of their wishes. Women decorate the trees with sandal and turmeric paste, kumkum, flowers and offer camphor too.
In another scenario, the unmarried women pray with devotion and faith to the god wishing for a happy married life and so they tie a yellow thread around the Tree.
Fox Beware of Lies
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I had already put it in my mouth until I saw out of the corner of my eye – FOX BEWARE OF LIES.
I believe that its a reference to some cultural belief about foxes and not a commentary on everyone’s favorite "news" show, but you never know.
Fox Beware of Lies
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I had already put it in my mouth until I saw out of the corner of my eye – FOX BEWARE OF LIES.
I believe that its a reference to some cultural belief about foxes and not a commentary on everyone’s favorite "news" show, but you never know.
When we see the wisdom of our “indigenous” spiritual brother “to be inspired?
Question Her .. Weet trade : When we see the wisdom of our “native”, we were inspired by a spiritual brother ?
“People come from indigenous oral narrative traditions. Storytelling is a” sacred “process because it provides people with social, cultural and historical” real part of the narrator is talking about culture, morality, spirituality, laws and societal values ??narriative using oral, as a forum These values, knowledge and opinions “are transmitted to the next generation without trial or criticism. “As well as legends, stories, wisdom in it, what you learn from them. Is your mind not heart softer? This nation has much to us blessed … Do you hear the wind, their spirit? Would you like to share these stories of these people cope. .. for our spiritual growth, many tribes lost … .. met these days … there are Best Answer:
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