Diversity and Health Assessments

  Patient: 21-year-old Filipino college student living in a dorm wanting to know what birth control is. Scenario: Provide an explanation of the specific socioeconomic, spiritual, lifestyle, and other cultural factors associated with the patient you were assigned....

Diversity and Health Assessments

May 2012, Alice Randall wrote an article for The New York Times on the cultural factors that encouraged black women to maintain a weight above what is considered healthy. Randall explained—from her observations and her personal experience as a black woman—that many...

Diversity and Health Assessments

M​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​ay 2012, Alice Randall wrote an article for The New York Times on the cultural factors that encouraged black women to maintain a weight above what is considered healthy. Randall explained—from her observations and her personal experience as a...

Diversity and Health Assessments

PART AFoundational NeuroscienceReceptors and neurotransmitters are like a lock-and-key system. Just as it takes the right key to open aspecific lock, it takes the right neurotransmitter to bind to a specific receptor. Not surprisingly, as it...

Diversity and Health Assessments

EB is a 68-year-old black female who comes in for follow-up of hypertension. She has glaucoma and her vision has been worsening during the past few years. She lives alone and is prescribed four hypertension medications (Hydralazine 50 mg PO Q8H, Metoprolol XL 200 mg...