Culture Change

What kind of discrimination is described by each of the following? Institutional discrimination Possible answers No Answers Chosen Interpersonal discrimination Using racial epithets or ethnic slurs No Answers Chosen Gaps in income persisting for Persons of Color even after adjusting for education and work experience Being followed and watched closely by another customer in a store Housing policies leading to Persons of Color living in neighborhoods with greater exposure to health hazards

Our current healthcare system is ill-equipped to deal with mental health issues, especially among people from various ethnic and racial backgrounds. You have selected to discuss the Asian ethnicity. For this assignment: Define ethnomedicine for the selected ethnicity/race and correlate to cultural values. Discuss some of the reasons that hinder access to the appropriate mental health care for some cultures/ethnicities as it relates their values and practices. Specifically discuss any barrier to care for the ethnicity/race you selected. Discuss why you made this selection. Describe how the design or implementation of healthcare programs or policies can assist public health professionals in alleviating these cultural barriers when it comes to mental healh issues and assistance. Provide specific examples.

Specifics: this essay should be structured as an op-ed written to a legislator of your choice (for advice on writing this type of essay, this is a good start: https://www.the-learning-agency.com/insights/write-an-op-ed/ Include at least 3 action items to discuss that you will argue should be a focus of future plans and your rationale for focusing on those.     Over the last 102 years, the population has experienced 5 pandemics of novel respiratory viruses: influenza pandemics in 1918, 1957,1968, and 2009, and the current coronavirus pandemic. We’ve had other pandemic scares, where epidemic viruses emerged but did not spread far enough to become pandemic: SARS, Ebola, Zika, avian influenza, and the sexually-transmitted HIV pandemic. Yet each time we seem to be surprised and unprepared. After learning about the ways various countries have prepared and responded to the coronavirus pandemic.  the key aspects you believe are critical for responding to the next pandemic threat, whatever…