Our current healthcare system is ill-equipped to deal with mental health issues, especially among people from various ethnic and racial backgrounds.
Select an ethnicity/race other than your own.
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.
Compile your response into an APA-formatted, two- to three-page paper (excluding cover page and reference page) that addresses each item listed above.
Use current APA Style to style your paper and to cite your sources. Integrate your sources into the paragraphs, and use internal citations pointing to evidence in the literature and supporting your ideas. You will need to include a reference page listing those sources.
