Bhs414 - Cross-Cultural Health Perspectives

BHS414 - Cross-Cultural Health Perspectives

Module 4 - SLP

Cultural Assessment (Cont'd.)/Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Childbirth and Breastfeeding

Jeremy Dewayne Sampson

BH1102011

BHS414 - Cross-Cultural Health Perspectives

* SLP

* Apply a culture-centered health education planning model to identify factors that influence a specific health behavior within a target cultural group

* Identify positive, existential, and negative perceptions related to a health behavior of a target cultural group

PEN-3 TABLE

Target Cultural Group: African Americans

Health Problem: HIV transmission in African Americans

DOMAINS | Positive | Existential | Negative |

Perceptions | The most famous HIV-positive black American still alive today is former basketball player Earvin “Magic” Johnson, who announced he had HIV in 1991. Magic Johnson’s assertion that HIV “can happen to anyone” represented a greater understanding that AIDS was not just a ‘gay’ disease. |  One focus group involving African Americans in North Carolina revealed a link between participants’ social background and sexual networks in the community. These contextual factors included institutional racism leading to diminished employment prospects and the inability to get a mortgage; high rates of incarceration; and lack of community recreation. |  “Gays to me were white men. The brothers that I hung out with, we never called ourselves gay. We just liked men. One brother asked me where my girlfriend was. I told him I didn’t have a girlfriend because I’m gay. Yet he was still like, ‘so why don’t you have a girlfriend?’ He thought I should have a girlfriend as a front.” |

Enablers |  The CDC's "Heightened National Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans" was intended to intensify efforts to tackle the black AIDS epidemic focusing on four different areas: Expanding the reach of prevention services; increasing opportunities for diagnosing and treating HIV; developing new...