Part B Short Paper

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6-1 Short Paper: Addressing Cultural Preferences

Cultural issues: There a wide range of cultural issues associated with the reviewed case study. First, the issue of poor cultural knowledge is one of the major issues influencing health intervention in the case study. According to Geertz (1997), poor cultural knowledge entails poor shared ideologies, values, beliefs, meaning and norms to which groups of individuals attribute significance. However, these shared understanding gives regularity and predictability and continuity through which people interact and act. Therefore, it represents constitutive social practices. Although culture differs both across and within contexts, health intervention which accommodates the shared meaning that is used by people to make sense of themselves as well as their environment in any given scenario.

Also, poor cultural practices are identified as one of the cultural issues influencing health interventions. Not only should group of people share cultural knowledge but following their interaction with each other, they are able to choose the knowledge they require as well as what to do with it. Since the choices of individuals are generally constrained or enabled by structural forces, individual also have the potential to facilitate cultural and structural changes.

Ethical issues: The ethical issues which may be overcome for to successfully implement an invention is by respecting people’s culture and individual belief regarding a given intervention. The major reason why some developed intervention appears ineffective sometimes the poor cultural knowledge of individual discourages them from taking part in the intervention therefore developing a program which educates individuals on the importance of these program could help improve their understanding and belief regarding the intervention. This will also encourage them to accept the intervention willingly.

Recommendation: the case study intervention could be strengthened in order to make effectively successful by improve the cultural knowledge of individuals and by so doing they will understand the importance of such intervention so that they can take part in it.

The strategy to address the cultural preferences for home births is to develop a program to educate the communities about childbirths as well as protect normal birth for women of all cultures through education and advocacy which could be employed to meet the specific expectation and needs of cultural groups.

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