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| Rural women's health is an infinitely broad topic. Many Indian women have come from circumstances in which women have limited access to healthcare. Traditionally, there has been discrimination towards women in decision-making; access to resources such as food, education and health care; job opportunities; and in child-rearing and parenting. However, women's health in rural areas affects everything in their environment from their families to their economies and vice versa. A woman's health, especially among the poor and
illiterate, is often neglected not just by her family but by the woman
herself. She is taught not to complain and if she does then she is
directed either to use condiments in the kitchen or try faith healing. |
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Man is unique in that he has a distinct cultural
environment of his own. This includes all the conditions in which men
are born, brought up, live, work, procreate and perish. Culture as an environment is deeply related to the health
of humans. It includes patterns of social organizations designed to
regulate a particular society; one can understand the behaviour of
people belonging to various sections and predict how an individual of a
particular section will react in a given situation. With our knowledge
of health, the treatment of diseases among ignorant peoples appears to
be strange since they frequently follow practices of praying, wearing of
amulets or consulting an exorcist who recites certain verbal formula.
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| Hence, we can say that beliefs and cultural practices are predominately playing significant roles in the human health more peculiarly in the health of women. Many rural people did not know about the services set up for them at sub-centres and PHC by the government because they did not see any evidence of these services being provided for them. As a part of the awareness programmes, the health workers (ANM) have been organizing to several exposure trips at the villages. It was there that the women were informed about the specifics of various services supposed to be made available to them. This encouraged some of them to ask questions and report on the situation in their PHC. |
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| They explained that though a nurse did visit their
village it was not a daily visit, nor did she go beyond a certain point
in the village, and certainly did not take a round of the village. They
made a show of doing their duty by providing nominal services. A variety of factors, including an older population, a limited supply of health care providers, and further distances from health care resources may contribute to special health concerns for people in non-metropolitan areas. Access to health care and social services are critical issues for rural women. Belief is the psychological state in which an individual is convinced of the truth of a proposition. Like the related concepts truth, knowledge, and wisdom, there is no precise definition of belief on which scholars agree, but rather numerous theories and continued debate about the nature of belief 1.
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The cultural phenomenon of social organization, according to Giger and Davidhizar (2004), includes groups in the social environment that influence cultural development and identification. The family, an important aspect of the social organization phenomenon, strongly influences cultural behavior through a process of socialization or enculturation of children and group members (Giger & Davidhizar; Niska, 1999). These learned cultural behaviors guide individuals through life situations, events and health practices. Understanding family from a cultural perspective is a significant element in providing nursing care to Mexican-Americans since Giger and Davidhizar identify the family as being most values in this culture. | |
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