Free Measles Vaccinations to Children
Write a research paper on three types of holistic healers (e.g., shamans, medicine men, accupuncturists). Include information about their training, approaches to healing, and evidence-based patient outcomes.
Case Study
Public health workers are offering free measles vaccinations to children. The worker is speaking with the parents of a child and explaining why the vaccination is important. The parents express concerns that the vaccine will interfere with God’s plan, and they refuse to have the child vaccinated.
Consider these related questions:
What are the parents’ beliefs about how health is maintained?
How do the theories of health and illness discussed in this chapter apply to this case study?
Using the Purnell model for cultural competence, what approach, if any, should the public health workers take to help protect the child by assisting the parents with understanding the need for the
vaccination?
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Worldview and Health Decisions
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
—Russell Hoban
Key Concepts
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