Assignment: Conduct a cultural self-assessment. In order to understand culture and cultural diversity, it is important that you understand your own culture and heritage. Using the tables that are loca
Suggested Question Sample Rationale/Example
1. Where do you currently live?
2. What is your ancestry?
3. Where were you born?
4. How many years have you lived in the
United States (or other country, as appropriate)?
5.Were your parents born in the United States
(or other country, as appropriate)?
6. What brought you (your parents/ancestors)
to the United States (or other country,
as appropriate)?
7. Describe the land or countryside where you
live. Is it mountainous, swampy, etc.?
8. Have you lived in other places in the
United States/world?
9. What is your income level?
10. Does your income allow you to afford the
essentials of life?
11. Do you have health insurance?
12. Are you able to afford health insurance
on your salary?
13. What is your educational level (formal/
informal/self-taught)?
14. What is your current occupation? If retired,
ask about previous occupations.
15. Are there (were there) any particular health
hazards associated with your job(s)?
16. Have you been in the military?
17. Are you married?
18. How many children do you have?
Sample Rationale/Example
1.Someone living in a wooded area with deer is at an increased risk for Lyme disease
2.. Ashkenazi Jewish population has a high incidence of genetic and
hereditary health conditions
3. Immigrants from Eastern Europe near Chernobyl have an increased
risk for genetic mutations and hereditary defects related to radioactive
contamination.
4. Length of time away from the home country may determine the degree
of assimilation and acculturation.
5. Generation may determine the degree of assimilation and acculturation.
6. Refugees may have post-traumatic stress disorders related to their
stay in refugee camps and suffered from rape, torture, and a host of
infectious and communicable diseases such as tuberculosis.
7.People living in swampy areas are at increased incidence for malaria.
8. People immigrating from or who have recently visited parts of Central American may be at increased for and need to be assessed
for arthropod-borne diseases.
9.Income level has implications for affording medications, dressings, and
prescriptive devices.
10. Determines the ability to afford healthy diets.
11.Refer to social services for financial support.
12.The working poor cannot afford health insurance.
13.Educational level may determine ability to understand health
prescriptions.
14.A person may currently be retired or may now work as a salesperson
but previously worked as a coal miner, increasing the risk of black lung
disease.
15.People working in home remodeling may be at risk for asbestosis.
16.People who served in the military may suffer from post-traumatic stress
syndrome or diseases contracted in their military experiences.
17.Part of a standard assessment.
18. Part of a standard assessment.
