During a health history, a patient tells the nurse about following traditional epidemiological practices. What is the purpose of these practices?
1. Preserve a heritage
2. Used as a part of the patient's religion.
3. Cure an illness
4. Uses folk medicine herbal remedies
1, 2
Explanation: 1. Traditional epidemiologies are those traditional HEALTH care beliefs and practices observed by people who have maintained a heritage within their ethnocultural background.
2. Macro-religious HEALTH practices may be a part of traditional epidemiology.
3. Not every method of treatment to cure an illness is traditional epidemiology.
4. Folk medicine herbal remedies may be part of a traditional epidemiology, but they are not the whole epidemiological tradition.
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