My Health, My Faith, My Culture: A guide for healthcare practitioners

This helpful guide enables healthcare practitioners to rise to the challenge of providing culturally sensitive services by giving them an understanding of patients’ varying potential requirements and how to meet them.ABOUT THIS GUIDE:Part 1 Culture, religion and health Chapter 1 – Introduction: Healthcare: patients’ rights and expectationsThe ethnic composition of the population of the United KingdomCulture and healthRefugees and asylum seekersIntolerance and prejudice – assimilation or integrationInequalities in healthThe research behind the production of this guideChapter 2 - Equipping healthcare providers to deliver appropriately sensitive care: Education and trainingLocal documentationPatient information documentationConsultations • Interpretation facilitiesSummaryForms of addressReligious beliefsQuestions which you might like to ask yourself prior to a consultationPart 2 The faithsChapter 3 – Major world religions: BuddhismChristianityHinduismIslamJudaismPaganismRastafarianismSikhismChapter 4 – Christian sects and faith groups: Jehovah’s WitnessesMormonsPlymouth BrethrenThe Bruderhof CommunityChapter 5 – Other significant groups: The Chinese population, and Chinese medicineThe Roma (Romany) people, travellers, gypsies