Heritage Assessment
An individual has their own ethnic, religious and cultural background and they share the thoughts among families or the same ethnic background and take over the tradition and culture from generation to generation. Looking at someone’s heritage, it includes traditional health methods how a particular ethnic background people to maintain health, protect health and restore health. I would like to discuss about health traditions; health maintenance, health protection and health restoration among with three different culture; Philippine, Hispanic and Japanese. Health Maintenance
Health maintenance deals with what different cultures do in their everyday lives that help prevent illness. In Philippine, people goes to grocery in daily base to buy the fresh meat, fish vegetable and fruit for the day and they don’t freeze or avoid using artificial flavor and MSG (Mary Smith, personal communication, April 30, 2014). In Japan where the author grew up till 18 year old, high school graduation, Japanese believe that what they consume, affect their health condition. Japanese eat fresh fish called “sashimi” as well as fresh fish with rice “sushi” which they are not greasy and high protein nutrition. Japanese drink different kinds of tea with meals and particularly the green tea is rich with vitamin C and high antioxidants Both Philippine and Japan cultures, there are some similarity that they like homemade food and eat food from cooking fresh ingredience. On the other hand, in the Hispanic culture, they believe “familism” staying family close together is the important to discuss what is happening and by discussing with family members and reducing less stress to keep good health maintenance (Maria Hernandez, personal communication, April 29,
