HSC 210: Cultural Practices Presentation
The objectives of this presentation are to:
1. Investigate an area of personal interest related to cultural health.
2. Locate and identify resources that providers may access when caring for a specific cultural or subcultural population.
3. Investigate opportunities and challenges that a specific culture or subculture face in obtaining and utilizing unbiased healthcare.
4. Report specific beliefs, customs, and behavioral patterns of a culture or subculture.
5. Relate strategies to address the unique health care needs among various cultures or subcultures.
6. Gain experience with peer and self-evaluation by reviewing and scoring fellow students’ presentations as well as your own.
You will research health issues related to a specific cultural or sub-cultural group of your choosing and then share what you have learned with others in this class via a PowerPoint, Google Slides or Prezi presentation.
Read through the following instructions, outline and scoring rubric in this document to help guide your research and presentation development. You will use the scoring rubric to conduct four peer evaluations in both Canvas (1st step) and Google via a link (2nd step), as well as a self-evaluation in Google via the same link (2nd step).
Instructions:
In order to learn more about the health and illness aspects of other cultures and subgroups, you will develop a presentation using PowerPoint, Google Slides or Prezi and post in the Cultural Practices Presentations assignment in Canvas to share with classmates. You will be randomly assigned four of your classmates’ presentations to conduct peer evaluations, as well as own self-evaluation, and your final score will be an average of these individual reviews.
Step 1: Choose a topic from among the suggested cultural groups or subgroups listed below (or feel free to select another not listed that interests you). As you consider your topic, know in advance that you will be required to interview at least one person who is either from that culture or who has first-hand experience with the culture (or find a recorded interview to use in its place). For example, if you chose the sex-trade sub-culture, you might interview an experienced health care provider (e.g. counselor or public health specialist). Interviews can serve to provide valuable information in which to create the hypothetical character, as well as supplement information on other areas of the outline, including provision of culturally competent care.
If you are doing a presentation of a culture outside of the US, you will want to ensure you provide a thorough background of the society, values, majority beliefs, and historical context to ensure that the groundwork is laid for understanding the culture or subculture of your choosing, which can include groups both in the United States and in their native countries. It is essential to understand the context that cultures operate within.
Suggested example cultural groups include:
“Health and Illness in..”
· Native American/Alaska Native/Yaqui
· Caucasian (Be specific: American South, European Immigrants, etc.)
· African American
· African immigrant (be specific: Ethiopian, Sundanese, Congolese, etc.)
· Asian (be specific: Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Hmong, East Indian, etc.)
· Hispanic (be specific: Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Guatemalan, Peruvian, Nicaraguan, etc.)
· Pacific and Hawaiian Islanders
· Middle Eastern (be specific: Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli, Afghani, etc.)
· European (be specific: Bosnian, Russian, French, German, Italian, etc.)
Topics can also include subcultures, which do not necessarily have an ethnic or racial component, but share a common lifestyle or interests. Examples include:
· Pennsylvania Dutch (Amish)
· Jewish
· Mormon
· Sufi
· Seventh-day Adventist
· Runaway youth
· Single parents (Mothers or fathers)
· Foster children
· Adoptive parents/adoptive children
· Military (Active military, military spouses, military families, etc.)
· LGBTQIA+
· Transgender
· Urban Street Culture
· Communities of illegal behavior (be specific: sex trade, drug market, or gangs)
· Athletes (be specific: body builders, distance runners, triathletes, gymnasts, etc.)
These lists just provide ideas and examples. If you don’t see a specific culture or subculture listed that you would like to choose, that’s fine. Contact your instructor using the Community Forum – Course Questions or via your course Inbox to see how your chosen topic fits with our presentation objectives if you have any questions.
Step 2: Organize your Presentation according to the following outline below. Look to include each of these areas related to your chosen culture, along with the specific categories included in the Cultural Practices Presentation Scoring Rubric (on the last page). Your outline and scoring rubric will help ensure you include all of the required graded criteria for your presentation. The outline is not to be turned in. However, if you need assistance with or clarification about the outline and resulting presentation, please contact your instructor.
I. Create 3-5 learning/behavioral objectives aligned with your presentation. You will include these at the beginning of your presentation. What do you want your viewers to learn by the end of your presentation? For assistance in writing learning objectives, please access the PDF in the “Assignments, Projects and Rubrics” module in our Canvas course titled “Writing Learning Objectives” from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
II. Begin with a brief description of key historical or background points related to the culture or sub-culture you have researched. Include population statistics to give viewers a broader understanding of your group.
III. Define Health and Illness: Apply the 8 Dimensions of Wellness to explain what it means to someone from your culture or subculture to be healthy or ill? Are there specific criteria that are essential for your group to feel that they are well or sick?
IV. Health Care Practices and Resources: Describe the type of healthcare system and services typically available to your culture/sub-culture. You may want to contrast the health care available in the US versus what is practiced in the native country, depending upon the group you have chosen. Do members of your culture/sub-culture generally have access to acceptable and affordable health care or are there obstacles? Explain.
V. Health Concerns & Circumstances: Identify the greatest health concerns for this cultural group by citing prevalence and incidence rates (health-related statistics) for health problems. Some concerns may be related to circumstances (geographical area, living conditions, socio-economic status, etc.), while others may be due to factors such as genetic predisposition.
VI. Behaviors & Beliefs: Identify beliefs, values behaviors and/or social practices favoring health and those negatively influencing health among the culture/subculture.
VII. Socio-Cultural Factors: Research health risks typical within the culture/subculture. Describe motivating socio-cultural factors that influence risk and/or why someone might engage in “risky behaviors” to gain something deemed more important (e.g. gender, status, economic need, moral code). Include any “rites of passage” or traditional practices that might apply that places people from your culture at risk. Here are 2 examples:
#1: Preparing/serving certain foods high in fat may influence risk for obesity, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease but those foods are culturally important to maintain social role and identity; not following tradition means risking loss of social standing and identity
#2: Youth involved in violence risk injury or fatality, but violence plays an important role in symbolizing power and esteemed social roles. Not engaging in violence means risking victimization, low social status, and low access to certain resources.
VIII. Introduce a hypothetical character through which you will explain how one would provide culturally competent care for someone within your culture/subculture via a short story. Develop your character by utilizing information gleaned from your interview; suggested areas to cover include your character’s general belief system, their age, gender and family structure, gender roles, sexuality and any ethno-medical beliefs. The use of a character is to humanize the conditions and practices of your cultural group.
IX. Culturally Competent Health Care: Conclude by describing what is necessary to uj culturally competent health care and/or services to your culture/sub-culture. This should be addressed in two areas:
a) Consider how to communicate, including language, how to address your patient or their family members, the use of eye contact, shaking of hands, etc. Think about what you need to do and understand prior to your patient trusting in your care. What do you need to do to communicate that your primary goal is to first understand your client?
b) What types of services, organizations, etc. would be helpful in addressing some of the health-related needs of your chosen culture/subculture? If applicable, identify government programs at Food Research Action Center (http://frac.org/programs) that would support their culture, but also consider outside organizations and services that may assist in other ways. Design this portion of your presentation with the idea in mind that you would be providing information to a client from your chosen culture/subculture with the intention to help improve his/her situation.
X. References: Remember, this is a research presentation. It is required that you include qualitative (e.g. interviews with people who are in or experienced with people in your cultural group or personal observations) and quantitative data (citing scientific research). Include in-text citations within your presentation and a reference list in AMA format to identify your source of information at the end of your presentation. Use at least 7 references including at least 1 professional journal article and at least 1 interview with a person who is knowledgeable about your chosen cultural group (or recorded interview for someone who is either from your chosen group or is familiar with the group). Examples of relevant journals include: The Journal of Transcultural Nursing; Social Science and Medicine; Western Journal of Nursing; Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; Annals of Internal Medicine; Occupational Therapy International; Annals of Family Medicine; Cultural Anthropology. Also utilize public health websites and document them fully.
You are required to use the writing style of the American Medical Association. This means that you will identify the sources of your information on each slide, using numbered citations, with a full reference list at the end. Do not let the citation of sources overwhelm your slides. AMA format style is recommended because reference numbers identify sources in-text, which minimizes space on your slides.
Step 3: Develop Your Presentation based on the information you gathered and included in your outline. Your presentation should last approximately 15 minutes if you were to read the slides and accompanying notes sections where appropriate, but there is no minimum or maximum number of slides required. * Slides should be informative, yet easy to read, and follow your Outline . Please use the “notes” option on slides that have a lot of information when needed so that it doesn’t clutter up the slide itself (if that option is available; you can also include an additional notes handout for your presentation reviewers along with your presentation if not), or add audio if you prefer narrating your presentation. Audio is optional, however.
Step 4: Submit your Presentation.
a. Post your presentation to the Cultural Practices Presentation assignment link in Canvas by the published presentation due date (as specified in the course Schedule/Calendar).
b. Receive four randomly assigned peer presentations to review the morning after the presentation due date and score in two steps, using the Canvas grading rubric (Step 1) and Google docs link (Step 2) by the published due date (as specified in the course Schedule).
Step 5: Scoring: The Cultural Practices Presentation is worth 100 points total; 80 points for the presentation and another 20 for your four peer-evaluations and one self-evaluation.
Presentations must be understandable, compelling, informative and provide a concise synthesis of the research on their topics. Overall visual appeal, including organization and use of graphics are important to communicating your message. It must contain college-level writing with few to no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors, so PLEASE check your work prior to submitting (NO TEXT-SPEAK!).
IMPORTANT: Presentations must be respectful of the culture and/or subculture in which they are representing and/or discuss. Information that could be considered offensive to others may result in removal of a student’s presentation from the class and further steps as indicated by the ASU Discrimination Policy. Remember that as a student at ASU you represent the University, so 7 presentations respectful, non-judgmental, evidence-based and objective.
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Utilize the scoring rubric (next page) as you develop your presentation. The various points in each content category demonstrate whether each was addressed in the presentation thoroughly (6 or 10), partially (3 or 5) or not at all (0). ONLY USE THE PROVIDED POINT CHOICES for each category.
* A version of this grading rubric will be available in Canvas and Google for you to review each peer presentation as well as your own.
Cultural Practices Presentation Scoring Rubric: 80 points
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Utilize the scoring rubric (below) as you develop your presentation. The various points in each content category demonstrate whether it was addressed in the presentation thoroughly (6 or 10, depending on category), partially (3 or 6) or not at all (0). ONLY USE THE PROVIDED POINT CHOICES.
Title of Presentation: (insert here)
Student Name: (insert here)
80 points possible for presentation
(Choose from one of three choices of points earned for each category below):
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· Discussed the Following Content (64 points total – 6-10 points each)
· Introduces topic with learning objectives (0) (3) (6)
· Introduces a hypothetical character which adds interest (attracts audience with a human interest angle, yet emphasizes facts of the culture/sub-culture) (0) (3) (6)
· Relevant background regarding living conditions of culture/sub-culture (0) (3) (6)
· Population statistics of culture/sub-culture (0) (3) (6)
· Health statistics of culture/sub-culture (0) (3) (6)
· Health issues of culture/sub-culture (0) (3) (6)
· Meaning of health and illness using 8 Dimensions of Wellness (0) (3) (6)
· Health care opportunities and barriers faced by culture/sub-culture (0) (3) (6)
· In-text citations throughout presentation and full references at the end of presentation, including use of interview/video of subject from or related to chosen culture/sub-culture (0) (3) (6)
· Recommendations for provision of culturally competent health care among this culture/sub-culture (0) (5) (10) *note difference in points for this category
Explain with detail why you scored as you did:________________________
· Professionalism: (16 points total)
· Accurate, creative, image-rich (0) (3) (6)
· Clear communication – understandable and compelling (0) (5) (10)
· Points will be deducted for not meeting college writing standards (poor or confusing
sentence structure, text-speak, grammatical or spelling errors, etc). Explain with detail why you scored as you did: _______________________________
TOTAL PRESENTATION: ____ /80 points
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