The Neighborhood Article Discussion

The Neighborhood Article Discussion

The Neighborhood Article Discussion

Step 1 Access and read the neighborhood news article:

• “Health Fair Welcomes All” Season 1, episode 7.
• • Click on for directions to enter the virtual community.
  • Select the link, , for further instruction on The Neighborhood.
  • Click on “” to access the neighborhood.

Step 2 Post a response to the discussion board. In your response, answer the following prompts:

• Identify a culture of your choice.
• Review the services to be provided at the health fair.
• Select one of the services offered.
• Describe additional information, teaching techniques and/or materials that could be developed on this topic to address a cultural pattern or characteristic of the chosen culture with the goal of increasing acceptance and utilization of the service by members of the culture.
• Describe how these characteristics and health literacy could influence healthcare behaviors.

Step 3 Read other students’ posts and respond to at least two of them by Friday at 11:59pm MT.

Choose two posts whose chosen culture was different from yours.

• Discuss similarities and differences between the two cultures in terms of cultural patterns and characteristics.
• Describe how these differences influenced adaptation of health fair materials. Include the impact of health literacy, if applicable.

Use your personal experience, if it’s relevant, to support or debate other students’ posts. If differences of opinion occur, debate the issues professionally and provide examples to support opinions.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Peer Response 1 (Maya)

The individual I chose to discuss this week is Angelo Reyes. Angelo is a 40-year-old Hispanic male who has type 1 diabetes (The Neighborhood, 2016). At the health fair, Angelo has information available to him that could be helpful with controlling his blood glucose levels and maintain a healthy weight at the same time. Some of the services provided at the health fair that may be helpful to Angelo are (a) checking his cholesterol levels, (b) blood pressure checks, and (C) obesity screening (The Neighborhood, 2016). A common test that is offered at health fairs are blood glucose level checks.

Additional information and materials that may be helpful are for the health care provider to have information available to health fair participants in their preferred language. It would also be important to develop information that has pictures and is aimed at the specific foods that different cultures commonly consume in their diet. This would help the participants to feel that their individual cultural needs are being addressed and that the new educational information is related to their culture and needs. When providing culturally competent information to participants, this could influence their health care behaviors by encouraging them to make healthy changes that don’t try to force them to change who they are and still encourage them to embrace their individual cultures.

The Neighborhood. (2016). Retrieved August 09, 2020, from

Peer Response 2 (Paul)

The African culture is my culture of choice. The services provided at the health fair includes blood pressure screening, blood sugar screening, prostate cancer screening, bone density screening, and body mass index screening.

Blood pressure screening is one of the services offered, and it is the most common screening at a health fair. The United States Preventive Service Task Force recommends screening for high blood pressure in adults aged 18 years or older. Persons at increased risk for high blood pressure are those who have high-normal blood pressure (130–139/85–89 mm Hg), those who are overweight or obese, and African Americans (Screening for high blood pressure, 2016 para 1 & 5).

Materials such as brochure or handouts can be developed. Speaking as an African, most Africans will likely not seek preventive service from a primary care provider, unless there is an emergency. Hence, to emphasis the benefits of blood pressure screening, the materials developed should include the importance of blood pressure screening, and the complications of high blood pressure such as stroke, heart attack, kidney failure etc.

Teachings on the importance of blood pressure screening, and the complications of high blood pressure will likely promote lifestyle changes such as dietary changes, weight loss etc. Also, it will likely encourage more Africans to visit primary health care providers for regular wellness visit. The Neighborhood Article Discussion

References

Screening for high blood pressure, 2016 AAFP. Retrieved from