Developing a culturally relevant bioethics for Asian people

Tai, Michael Cheng-tek; Lin, Chung Seng

doi:10.1136/jme.27.1.51

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“…It is also important that health professionals understand how different patients of diverse sociocultural backgrounds deal with health decision making within their own contexts; that is, within their own families/social ties, and their own traditions (Bowman & Hui 2000; Tai & Lin 2001).…”

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Hypertension Management: Lifestyle Interventions in a Transcultural Context

2009

Journal of Renal Care

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Hypertension is a risk factor for cardiovascular and kidney diseases. According to estimation, the prevalence of hypertension will increase unless extensive and effective preventive measures are implemented. The diversity of languages and cultures of the hypertensive patients requiring adequate blood pressure control make communications difficult in many instances. Nursing intervention for patients to adopt a healthy lifestyle requires effective communication. But the communication problems encountered in a culturally diverse context can result in undesirable outcomes for the patients and the health-care team. This paper describes the production of a document to assist staff address the difficulty in intercultural communication, which could be used anywhere in the world. This document can facilitate nursing intervention to achieve optimal hypertension management in a transcultural context, responding to the challenge regarding preventive measures to halt increase in hypertension prevalence.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hypertension Management: Lifestyle Interventions in a Transcultural Context

2009

Journal of Renal Care

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“…In some cultures, autonomy may be considered a collective, rather than an individual capacity. Examples of collective autonomy in healthcare decision-making are evident in the common practice in some cultures of delivering diagnoses of terminal diseases to the head of the family rather than the patient, wherein the family-rather than the patient-will make decisions about interventions for the patient (Tai and Lin, 2001). Designing these interventions will require careful consideration of the most appropriate balance of user control, involving discussion as a team of scientists, ethicists, patients, and families.…”

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Neuroethics Questions to Guide Ethical Research in the International Brain Initiatives

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Jeong

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Neuron

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“…However, most studies on inpatient glycemic control or management of inpatient hyperglycemia have been conducted in western countries. Because doctor-patient relationships vary in different cultures [4], a model that succeeds in the West may not be effective in the East. In addition, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is growing in Asian countries [5], where few studies have been conducted.…”

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