One of Healthy People 2020 overarching goals is to achieve health equity, eliminate health disparities and improve the health of all groups (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services [DHHS], 2010). In order to help achieve that goal, U.S. health professionals must be knowledgeable of and sensitive to the beliefs and practices of the various cultures that make up our country. Lipson (1996) defined culture and conveyed, Culture…is a system of symbols that is shared, learned and passed on through generations
its impact on Humans: A healthy lifestyle is a key factor in keeping good mental and physical health and can be achieved through various strategies for self care and self regulation. It is an essential companion to any stress-reduction program, which implies high levels of stress can be a barrier in making healthy lifestyle changes. Several years of scientific confirmation has shown the importance of emotional states and health impairing behaviors as well as effective stress management for life style
landmasses, water bodies, mountains, valleys, plains, swamps, grass lands, forests is not just the planet that we live in. The Earth is the basis of our existence, the root of our being. There are no us without the Earth. All cultures recognized the importance of Earth for the sustenance of human life, and thus in every cultural system, we see an ardent reverence and worship of Earth as a life giver, and preserver, even destroyer and thus a creator of new forms and an embodiment of change. These practices
PGR are the pillars upon which world food security depends especially with expanding global population (Ogwu et al. 2014). PGR include materials considered of systematic importance and applicable in cytogenetic, phylogenetic, evolutionary biology, physiological, biochemical, pathological and ecological research and breeding. They encompass all cultivated crops and those of little to no agricultural value as well as their