The nana in Jamaica

The text book is Helman, Cecil G. Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition ISBN# 978-0-340-91450-2

 They represent a wide variety of global experiences in health care studies which are directly related to the material covered each week in your text book. I encourage you to look at the all cases in your book prior to choosing one to write about. You should the find one that peaks your interest, sufficient to research and write about as an essay.
 Your assignment is to write, (>600 word) essays, contrasting the cultural difference in today’s healthcare/cultural beliefs with the case with those of today. They are not both due at the same time. You are contrasting current information about the culture where the case first occurred, with what actually happened in the case study. The essays should reflect your research about the cultures both at the time the case occurred, how the culture has now changed, and whether or not research reveals differences in the health care culture where the case occurred, today. You should answer the question whether or not you believe there have been sufficient changes in the society where the case occurred, that if the case occurred today, there would be a different outcome.
 The title of your Case Study Essay is your initials and title of the case study from the book. (RB, Urban Obesity in the Gambia)
 Make sure that you include information about the case from the book and that your references include the case study from the book.
• For example: If the case study from your book, was done in Cuba, and it was about the dental health of Cubans in 1979; then you are trying to determine if dental health in Cuba has changed since the time the original case study was recorded. Your essay should include the original information you have found in your text and reliable information about the current dental health care of Cubans today.