Personal Heritage Assessment
Question: What are the Personal heritage assessment and its usefulness? In this paper, the writer will focus on the usefulness of applying a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of person as a whole, three different family’s opinions on health maintenance, health protection and health restoration. Also this paper will identify health traditions as regards to cultural heritage of the writer, then how the three families interviewed in this paper follow their customs and how important their traditions and practices are to them. Heritage can be described as the degree of which one’s lifestyle reflects his/her tribal culture. Cultural heritage exist in a continuum and a person can possess values both the traditional –living within the norms of the traditional culture and modern-living outside norms of the tradition. Specter (2004) The usefulness of the applying heritage assessment in evaluating of the needs of the whole person is outlined as follows;
EFFECTIVE CARE:- With the knowledge and application of heritage assessment patient will derive satisfaction and positive outcome in health will be achieved.
RESPECTFUL CARE: - Taking into consideration the values, preferences, n the expressed needs of the patient are met.
CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE:- By applying heritage assessment certain behaviors, attitudes, and policies that are seen in a system of multidisciplinary which enable them to work in cross-cultural way to provide quality cares. Specter, (2004) for example, providing a patient with an interpreter during care in health care facility. “Under the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when people with limited English proficiency (LEP) seek health care in health care settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, daycare centers, and mental health centers,