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Cultural Considerations during Physical Examination of a 19yr Old Arabic College Female
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Cultural Considerations during Physical Examination of a 19yr Old Arabic College Female
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Physical examination is the primary course of action in managing or treating any

condition presented in any hospital. It is a patient-to-doctor conversation aimed at understanding

the background, history, and, most important, the anomalies experienced by the patient. In this

case, special skills are required from the doctor and even more paramount in dealing with a

teenager. To play out an equipped, pertinent, and exhaustive appraisal of a patient, social issues

MUST be considered (Jarvis, 2018).The cultural issues are generally self-evident if the patient

has an unmistakably unique foundation from the medical care provider. The patient may have

altogether different convictions and comprehension of a specific ailment, the patient's demeanor

about being analyzed and tested may differ generously, and language barriers may arise. Some of

these cultural factors are analyzed as;

Ethnicity, Beliefs, and misconceptions about illnesses

Different communities have different beliefs in virtually everything they experience in

their day-to-day life. These dynamics are a major consideration for any health provider. They

determine how the female will respond to questions; present the fever's causes and the kind of

treatment she receives (Jarvis, 2018). For instance, among the Arabs, culture is very opium of

every community, the teenager might be in a dilemma to disclose the real cause of the fever if it

has taboos around or the circumstances resulting in the condition are a handoff in her culture

(Jarvis, 2018). Language is also important as to why the medical personnel should consider when

cross-examining the 19 year old under Ethnicity. This is because the teenager may be finding it

difficult to speak fluent English since it is not their first language. We will need a translator to

understand some words that are not clear to understand the patient fully. 

Family and family social structure

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Understanding the family of a patient is very important during any medical examination.

It helps medics to understand the history of the patient. The relation between teenagers and their

parents is often very rough (Gulliford & Jessop, 2020). Thereby the doctor or nurse should

consider understanding how the patient relates with her parents, siblings, or even relatives. In

trying to understand the fever, some questions may seem too personal to the girl. If her parents

have accompanied her to the hospital, she might choose to conceal some information due to her

phobia of her parent's reactions. If the condition affecting the gal is, for instance, sex-related, she

will choose to leave these details as this is a great crime in most Arabic Islam setups.

Health Care Systems

The health care system or medical services framework is the association of individuals,

organizations, and assets that deliver medical care services and support to meet target populaces'

well-being needs. These may be individual or private, communal or public. They provide health

care support ranging from monetary, equipment supply, and diagnosis and treatment centers.

They collectively merge to complete the framework, thus making health care access as available

and fast as possible. The health care system available in my community for her is the Universal

Health care system. This is a government-funded universal health care system known as the

National Health Service (NHS). It comprises several constituent health care systems after the

earlier mention member states (Martin, 2018). With the enactment of the 2012 Health and Social

Care, the NHS was divided into national and local organizations and allowed GPs to oversee the

NHS budget and funding in the respective local areas through commissions. This will help her

because it provides counseling and mental treatments, health screening, local area, and family

support. It directs the expenditure planning, budgeting, conveyance, and formulating

commissions for the constituent NHS for the member states (Martin, 2018). In fostering health
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care, the NHS has set aside some health conditions considered a high priority. They include

maternal and neonatal health, mental health, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, mental health,

respiratory disorders, and stroke. 

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References

Gulliford, M., & Jessop, E. (2020). Healthcare public health. Healthcare Public Health:

Improving health services through population science, 1.

Jarvis, C. (2018). Physical Examination and Health Assessment-Canadian E-Book. Elsevier

Health Sciences.

Martin, D., Miller, A. P., Quesnel-Vallée, A., Caron, N. R., Vissandjée, B., & Marchildon, G. P.

(2018). Canada's universal health-care system: achieving its potential. The

Lancet, 391(10131), 1718-1735.