NR 553: Global Health Policy. Cultural Norms and Healthcare Issues Chamberlain College of Nursing.
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NR 553: Global Health Policy. Cultural Norms and Healthcare Issues
Chamberlain College of Nursing.Search the World Health Organization website or Chamberlain online library for a social or cultural norm associated with behaviors leading to healthcare issues. Discuss the global healthcare issue and...
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Running head: Cultural Norms and Healthcare Issues 1
Cultural Norms and Healthcare Issues
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Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR553: Global Health Policy
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, Cultural Norms and Healthcare Issues 2
Search the World Health Organization website or Chamberlain online library for a
social or cultural norm associated with behaviors leading to healthcare issues. Discuss
the global healthcare issue and explain how cultural or social norms or practices play
a role in perpetuating the behavior.
Week 5: Cultural Norms and Healthcare Issues
According to the World Health Organization (2018), Female genital mutilation (FGM) is
one of the social-cultural norms which poses a considerable health risk to the affected. FGM
refers to any intentional practice that involves the partial or total altering of the external female
genitalia or other female genital parts for non-medical reasons. The practice is prevalent in
about 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East as well as Asia and is carried out mainly to girls
below the age of 15 years. Thus, over 200 million females alive today have undergone FGM.
In barely all of the societies, it is practiced it is viewed as a cultural tradition. According to
Cetorelli, Wilson, Batyra, and Coast (2016) many individuals and institutions consider it a
significant public health as well as human rights issue.
According to Powell and Mwangi-Powell (2014), FGM is a deeply rooted and ancient custom,
and the factors that precipitate its continuation are many and diverse. Some of the primary
reasons it is practiced include as a rite of passage and cultural obligation, limiting sexual desire
and increasing chastity as well as to augment female marriageability prospects. The FGM
problem is escalated by structural issues which have institutionalized the practice, and thus there
is social pressure to conform to practice to be socially accepted. Local structures of power and
authority including religious leaders, circumcisers, community leaders, as well as some medical
professionals who uphold the practice also highly compound the situation (WHO, 2018).
Some of the immediate health concerns it raises include severe bleeding, problems urinating,
severe pain, genital swelling, fever, infections such as tetanus, shock, and wound healing
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