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      • Patterns of Health Risk
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Client Background

Tribal Affiliation

  • Degree of affiliation
  • Exposure to traditional beliefs and practices
  • Acculturation level to dominant culture
  • Language spoken at home
  • Ancestral history

Geography

  • Geographic location of birth
  • Years in the primary area of residence (urban or rural village)

Historical Trauma and Generational Experiences

  • Colonization
  • Missionary era
  • Cultural disruption
  • Deprivation, and loss
  • Other socio-historical context impacting attitudes towards formal systems and health status (see Cohort Experiences)

Role

  • Perception of role in collective society as transmitter of cultural knowledge to the young

Religion

  • Traditional church practices
  • Rituals
  • Extent of participation in church activities

Patterns of Decision Making

  • Degree of connectedness with family and community
  • Quality of the interdependent sense of self
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Alaska Native

  • Description
  • Learning Objectives
  • Updated Summary
  • Introduction and Overview
    • Terminology
    • Geography
    • Demographics
    • Native Cultures
      • Athabascan
      • Yup’ik and Cup’ik
      • Inupiaq
      • Aleut and Alutiiq
      • Southeastern Tribes
    • Historical Background
      • Historical Trauma
      • Decade Value Development
      • Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill
      • Land Claims
  • Patterns of Health Risk
    • Causes of Death
      • Cancer
      • Diabetes
      • Trauma-Falls
      • Suicide
      • Elder Abuse

Culturally Appropriate Care

  • Fund of Knowledge
    • Cohort Analysis
      • Cohort Experiences
    • Cultural Values
      • Health Care Impact
    • Communication Patterns
      • Presentation of Self
      • Distribution of Talk
      • Contents of Talk
    • Traditional Healing
    • Important Cultural Issues
  • Assesment
    • Respect and Rapport
    • Communication
    • Standardized Instruments
    • Client Background
    • Clinical Assesment
      • Health History
      • Physical Examination
      • Cognitive and Affective Status
      • Functional Status
      • Home and Family
      • Community and Neighborhood
      • End of Life Preferences
    • Eliciting Perspectives
  • Cancer Care

Access & Utilization

  • Patterns of and Barriers to Utilization
  • Models of Service
  • Health Care Policy
  • Health Promotion Strategies
    • Alcohol and Substance Abuse
    • Issues in Treatment
    • Blending Biomedicine and Tradition
    • Long Term Care
    • Adult Day Programs

Learning Resources

  • Instructional Strategies
    • Case Study 1
    • Case Study 2
  • List of References
  • Searchable Reference Database
  • Links
  • Glossary
  • Interview Strategies
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