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Environmental Health in
Transcultural Health Care
Week 2. Cultural Blog
Be prepared to discuss your cultural background. What are your traditions new/old. Significance of cultural icons related to your worldview Each student should post a substantive paragraph on the all class blog. Identify some cultural icons/symbols which you use and share these with the class. Be able to explain their meanings to assist in validating each other as humans. You may use Leininger’s approach to describe your self, Page 7 in your text, or the outline given at the end of the syllabus called Community Cultural Assessment.
Key Concept: Self Assessment
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Your community’s environment Assignments • http://www.scorecard.org/
Your community’s effect on body burden• http://www.ewg.org/featured/15
Key Concept: Cultural Encounter
Indigenous HealersSign up for a Web site activity for next week's class These are the questions to answer: 1.What information does the site provide? 2. Is
information provided about education/training? 3. What is the treatment/therapy used for? 4. Who usually uses this therapy? All groups? A specific cultural group? 5. Is the treatment covered by insurance? 6. Is there scientific evidence for the efficacy of the treatment/therapy?
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Questions about use of indigenous remedies Assignment: Assessment and Health History Indigenous Healers.Assignment: Small group role play questions
about indigenous remedies
Justice
• Read article on White Privilege by Jensen and Mixed Emotions by Podemski
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Environmental JusticeDefinition of environmental justice:Environmental Justice & Asian Pacific Islander Issues
http://www.apen4ej.org/issues_what.htmAssignments: See comparative scorecards of
communities of minority and majority groupsInclude social stigma associated with effects of
environmental exposures, eg. cognitive disability
Oral Traditions
An Evening of Storytelling
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Post a story with an environmental themeFor example:
First person account of effect of river dams on reservations
