Culture, spirituality, and women's health.
A review of the literature on culture, health/women's health, and spirituality/religion reveals that the purported relationships among these variables may be tenuous. Nevertheless, there is a need for health care professionals to be aware of existing cultural/religious beliefs that may affect women's health behavior if provision of holistic health care is a goal. Implications for practice and research can be drawn from the existing evidence in the literature.
Miller
M A
MA
College of Nursing, University of Delaware, Newark, USA.
D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D012067:Religion; D016746:Transcultural Nursing; D016387:Women's Health; D014933:Women's Rights