scholarly journals Effective Ways to Encourage Health-Care Practices among Cultural Minorities in Israel during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 9563
Author(s):  
Tehila Kalagy ◽  
Sarah Abu-Kaf ◽  
Orna Braun-Lewensohn
Keyword(s):  
Minority Populations ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Arab Population ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Culturally Tailored ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Cultural Minorities ◽  
Tailored Approach ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The One

Following the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19, policymakers have been occupied with the questions of whether and how to specially address unique cultural groups coping with the pandemic. This study aimed to evaluate the potential for a culturally tailored approach to the transmission of health messages in a time of crisis among two minority populations within Israeli society: the Ultra-Orthodox population and the Arab population. To that end, 380 individuals from Israeli Ultra-Orthodox society and 360 individuals from Israeli Arab society completed a self-reported questionnaire in early April 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings of this study reveal differences between these groups in terms of the effectiveness of different channels for conveying messages and the channels that were preferred, as well as significant relationships between community sense of coherence and the study variables. We found that advocacy and motivation based on values, on the one hand, and recognition of the effectiveness of a culturally tailored approach, on the other, may be the best approach for persuading members of minority populations, who belong to collectivist societies, to comply with epidemic-control instructions.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence and Human Trust in Healthcare: Focus on Clinicians (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onur Asan ◽  
Alparslan Emrah Bayrak ◽  
Avishek Choudhury
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Primary Users ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The One

UNSTRUCTURED Artificial intelligence (AI) can transform health care practices with its increasing ability to translate the uncertainty and complexity in data into actionable—though imperfect—clinical decisions or suggestions. In the evolving relationship between humans and AI, trust is the one mechanism that shapes clinicians’ use and adoption of AI. Trust is a psychological mechanism to deal with the uncertainty between what is known and unknown. Several research studies have highlighted the need for improving AI-based systems and enhancing their capabilities to help clinicians. However, assessing the magnitude and impact of human trust on AI technology demands substantial attention. Will a clinician trust an AI-based system? What are the factors that influence human trust in AI? Can trust in AI be optimized to improve decision-making processes? In this paper, we focus on clinicians as the primary users of AI systems in health care and present factors shaping trust between clinicians and AI. We highlight critical challenges related to trust that should be considered during the development of any AI system for clinical use.

‘LEADERS’: A culturally tailored approach to genetic counseling for minority populations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nehama Cohen Kfir ◽  
Mary Rudolf ◽  
Miriam Ethel Bentwich ◽  
Nomy Dickman ◽  
Tzipora C. Falik‐ Zaccai
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Counseling ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Culturally Tailored ◽  
Tailored Approach

scholarly journals ÅNDEBØRN

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helle Samuelsen
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
The Body ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Transitional State ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The One ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Helle Samuelsen: Spirit Children According to local cosmology among the Bissa of Burkina Faso, small children up to 3-4 years of age are seen as balancing between the living and the spiritual worlds. At this early stage in their lives, they are in a transitional state with a certain attachment to the world of spirits and ancestors. On the one hånd, children are considered vulnerable and thus eligible for parental protection, while on the other hånd, they are perceived as powerful in that they represent the spiritual world. This local cosmology of early childhood liminality is inscribed in children’s bodies through daily practices of preventing and treating illness. Practices for controlling bodily orifices, viewed as thresholds between inner body and the extemal world, and controlling spatial boundaries between village and bush, are important in regulating the relationship between the living and the spiritual worlds. Analytically, the body can bc seen as part of the topology where local cosmology is unfolded. The article shows how studies of daily health care practices aimed at controlling the liminality of small children contribute to understanding how local cosmology is practiced in everyday life. It is argued that although children are not studied as individual agents in this article, a focus on children gives insight into other and more general aspects of the local culture.

Between Applauses and Loneliness, Heroes/Warriors and Fear: Thoughts of a Medical Professor During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042094105
Author(s):  
Gustavo A. Raimondi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Medical Education Research ◽  
Medical Educator ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The One

In this performance autoethnography poetry, I report a poem which aims to question the socially constructed concepts and health care practices in times of COVID-19 pandemic. Through my thoughts, questions, answers, and demarcations embodied in my existence as a medical educator/professor/researcher and former (?) physician, I try to enlarge the views of this COVID-19 pandemic, in a context such as the one we are living in Brazil, between the deaths and the denial of the pandemic, in the search to “save the economy.” By playing with my personal/political stories, inviting the readers to think with me about health care, medical education/research, applauses and loneliness, heroes/warriors and fear, and possibilities embodied in our texts, in our lives.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence and Human Trust in Healthcare: Focus on Clinicians

10.2196/15154 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. e15154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onur Asan ◽  
Alparslan Emrah Bayrak ◽  
Avishek Choudhury
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Primary Users ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The One

Artificial intelligence (AI) can transform health care practices with its increasing ability to translate the uncertainty and complexity in data into actionable—though imperfect—clinical decisions or suggestions. In the evolving relationship between humans and AI, trust is the one mechanism that shapes clinicians’ use and adoption of AI. Trust is a psychological mechanism to deal with the uncertainty between what is known and unknown. Several research studies have highlighted the need for improving AI-based systems and enhancing their capabilities to help clinicians. However, assessing the magnitude and impact of human trust on AI technology demands substantial attention. Will a clinician trust an AI-based system? What are the factors that influence human trust in AI? Can trust in AI be optimized to improve decision-making processes? In this paper, we focus on clinicians as the primary users of AI systems in health care and present factors shaping trust between clinicians and AI. We highlight critical challenges related to trust that should be considered during the development of any AI system for clinical use.

The call to Hawaii: Holistic practitioners’ perspectives of their communicative practices of healing

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Geist-Martin ◽  
Catherine Becker ◽  
Summer Carnett ◽  
Katherine Slauta
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Holistic Health Care ◽  
Mutual Action

The big island of Hawaii has been named the healing island – a place with varied interpretations of healing, health, and a wide range of holistic health care practices. This research explores the perspectives of holistic providers about the communicative practices they believe are central to their interactions with patients. Intensive ethnographic interviews with 20 individuals revealed that they perceive their communication with clients as centered on four practices, specifically: (a) reciprocity – a mutual action or exchange in which both the practitioner and patient are equal partners in the healing process; (b) responsibility – the idea that, ultimately, people must heal themselves; (c) forgiveness – the notion that healing cannot progress if a person holds the burden of anger and pain; and (d) balance – the idea that it is possible to bring like and unlike things together in unity and harmony. The narratives revealed providers’ ontological assumptions about mind-body systems and the rationalities they seek to resist in their conversations with patients.

Impact of Religion on Traditional Health Care Practices Among the Lepchas of Upper and Lower Lingthem of Upper Dzongu, Sikkim, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 2455328X2199571
Author(s):  
Manisha Thapa ◽  
Pinak Tarafdar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Traditional Health ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Traditional Health Care ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The Village

In all cultures and regions, the concept of health varies, based on the type of environment and prevalent sociocultural traditions. The present study is conducted among the Lepchas of the village of Lingthem divided into two sectors—Upper and Lower Lingthem, Upper Dzongu, North Sikkim. This population comprising Buddhist Lepchas residing away from the mainstream through poor infrastructural facilities still maintain ethnomedical health care practices without influence of major Indian healing systems. Living in the area of Dzongu exclusively inhabited by Lepchas revival of ancient cultural practices is evident among Lepchas of Lingthem. The structure of religious beliefs prevalent among the Lepchas, including traditional animistic as well as Buddhist practices, greatly influence forms of treatment sought for specific ailments. Even today, the use and maintenance of traditional health care with syncretized Buddhist religious belief among residents of Lingthem act as a vital source for understanding the influence of religion on traditional health care practices. Despite the presence of a few modern health care agencies, the traditional treatment of Bongthing (Lepcha shaman) and Buddhist monks remain widely popular as primary means of health care.

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