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  2. Cultural effects of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic

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    The World Health Organization and the United Nations stated that such misinformation had contributed to the spread of the disease. [ 73 ] In Liberia, some body-collection teams dispatched to collect the Ebola dead have collected bribes to issue falsified death certificates to family members, stating that their dead relative did not die from Ebola.

  3. Culture - Wikipedia

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    Culture (/ ˈ k ʌ l tʃ ər / KUL-chər) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitudes, and habits of the individuals in these groups. [1] Culture often originates from or is attributed to a specific region or ...

  4. Religion and health - Wikipedia

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    Scholarly studies have investigated the effects of religion on health. The World Health Organization (WHO) discerns four dimensions of health, namely physical, social, mental, and spiritual health. [1] [2] Having a religious belief may have both positive and negative impacts on health and morbidity.

  5. Cultural diversity - Wikipedia

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    37th General Assembly of UNESCO in 2013, Paris. Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture.It has a variety of meanings in different contexts, sometimes applying to cultural products like art works in museums or entertainment available online, and sometimes applying to the variety of human cultures or traditions in a specific region, or in the ...

  6. Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    The Zhou dynasty oriented religion to worshipping the broader concept of heaven. A large part of Chinese culture is based in the belief in a spiritual world. Countless methods of divination have helped answer questions, even serving as an alternative to medicine. Folklores have helped fill the gap between things that cannot be explained. There ...

  7. Health in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The level of health in Japan is due to a number of factors including cultural habits, isolation, and a universal health care system. John Creighton Campbell, a professor at the University of Michigan and Tokyo University , told the New York Times in 2009 that Japanese people are the healthiest group on the planet. [ 1 ]

  8. Cultural competence in healthcare - Wikipedia

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    Cultural competence is a practice of values and attitudes that aims to optimize the healthcare experience of patients with cross cultural backgrounds. [7] Essential elements that enable organizations to become culturally competent include promoting diversity, being conscious of the dynamics inherent when cultures interact, having institutionalized cultural knowledge, and having developed ...

  9. Death and culture - Wikipedia

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    In western culture, death has long been shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe, and sometimes wearing a midnight black gown with a hood. This image was widely illustrated during the Middle Ages. Examples of death personified are: Mexican tradition holds the goddess or folk saint called Santa Muerte as the personification of death. [33]