Promotion of Cultural Healthcare Organizations to Improve Efficiency

Interdisciplinary Studies
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Interdisciplinary Studies
My research question is: Is the promotion of cultural healthcare organizations critical to improving their efficiency and effectiveness? Finding the answer to this question requires a multidiscipline perspective using the insights and theories of all relevant disciplines. Some of the relevant disciplines include sociology, anthropology, psychology, epidemiology, biostatistics, health sciences, and cultural studies. Adequacy refers to the ability to know about a specific discipline to understand how it approaches, explains, and addresses a problem when conducting interdisciplinary research. My research shows that culture is a critical determinant in health care and health seeking behaviors among all groups and populations. The research also indicates that the failure to understand and consider the cultural peculiarities of each group or population results in poor health outcomes and limited health literacy.
There were no conflicts between insights or theories in the interdisciplinary study. All research articles agreed that cultural and personal perceptions of health care service, clinicians, and illness affected health care seeking behavior, medication adherence, public engagement in health literacy programs, and health behaviors. The conclusions drawn from my research are that cultural beliefs and practices must be factored in any public health undertaking. Ideas for future research related to my topic center around the influence of communication strategies and slavery in modern establishments on health care outcomes. I would approach my research topic from the biblical viewpoint of exhaustively looking for the truth and critically analyzing every source to arrive at the most truthful facts.
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Buse, C., Martin, D., & Nettleton, S. (2018). Conceptualising “materialities of care”: making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts. Sociology of Health & Illness, 40(2), 243–255. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12663
The study argues that the mundane and often ignored material culture in health care is central to patient and clinician identity and therefore has intended and unintended health outcomes. This source is critical to my primary area of study because it reveals the link between material culture in health care environments and clinical practice, health care outcomes, and patients’ perceptions of health care delivery.
Eley, N. T., Namey, E., McKenna, K., Johnson, A. C., & Guest, G. (2019). Beyond the Individual: Social and Cultural Influences on the Health-Seeking Behaviors of African American Men. American Journal of Men’s Health, 13(1), 155798831982995. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988319829953
The study determined that health-seeking behaviors among African American men is largely influenced by cultural gender norms, family, upbringing, as well as peers and that health promotion programs targeting this population must factor in the four social factors. This source is critical to my primary area of study because it illustrates the cultural and normative experience...