COURSE:

NR394: Transcultural Nursing


Directions

Template and Link

Week 3: Course Project Part 1 Template (Download here) (Links to an external site.)

HealthyPeople.gov Leading Health Indicators website (Links to an external site.)

 

 

Solution

Cultural Community Needs

  1. Describe the specific culture/ethnic population selected in detail.

The population selected is the older males of age 65 years and above from the black American ethnic group. The blacks are a significant ethnic group in the U.S. Individuals from this ethnic group have either complete or incomplete descendent from the black racial classes found in the Africa continent.

  1. Describe the rationale for selecting this population.

The black’s health has been the most disadvantaged over the past decades in the U.S population. One of the significant reasons behind the health disparities among blacks is race discrimination leading to health inequities. The blacks’ health inequalities’ ultimate impact is early deaths resulting from disorders such as hypertension (Still, Ferdinand, Ogedegbe & Wright Jr, 2015). In particular, the older black men are the most affected (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). Therefore,…………..please follow the link below to access the solution at $10