People of Thai Heritage.
Read chapter 24, 22 & 36 of the class textbook and review the attached PowerPoint presentations.  
Once done write an 800 words essay contracting the three study heritage.  
Mention in the essay if there is any similarity in their healthcare belief.  Mention how do they see health and disease and their customs to deal with them,  also, discuss how they view dead. How their health care belief affect or influence the delivery of evidence-based healthcare. 
Read content chapter 36 in Davis Plus Online Website.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
Polish American Culture
Larry Purnell, PhD, RN, FAAN
Copyright © 2013 F.A. Davis Company
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
Polish Overview/Heritage
? Over 9 million people in the United States and
800,000 people in Canada identify their ancestry
as Polish.
? Displaying fierce patriotism, courage, and
determination to resist another occupation,
Poland was the only country to combat Germany
from the first day of the Nazi invasion until the
end of the war in Europe.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
Polish Overview/Heritage
? Between the 1939 Nazi invasion and the end of
World War II in 1945, nearly six million Poles,
comprising over 15 percent of Poland’s total
population, perished.
? Many Polish Jews were exterminated by the
Nazis in the Holocaust, prisoners killed in
concentration or forced labor camps, soldiers,
and civilians.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
Polish Overview/Heritage
? After Stalin’s death, Polish communism vacillated
between repression and liberalization until about
1970.
? Poland’s resistance to Communist rule began in
1970 with the emergence of Lech Walesa, the
leader of a strike in the Gdansk shipyards.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
Polish Overview/Heritage
? The 1980 emergence of Solidarity and the
election of a Polish Pope rekindled a religious
rebirth in the Poles, an increased sense of self,
social identity, and the realization of their
collective strength.
? Solidarity became a major social movement and
phenomenon unheard of within the Soviet bloc’s
political system.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
Polish Overview/Heritage
? In July, 1989, the newly elected Parliament
changed the country’s name and constitution,
establishing the Third Republic of Poland and a
democratic system of government.
? Polish immigrants have maintained their ethnic
heritage by promoting their culture, attending
Catholic churches, attending parades/festivals,
maintaining ethnic food traditions, speaking the
Polish language.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
Polish Overview/Heritage
? Newer immigrants are less concerned with
raising consciousness over Polish
American issues as they are with
financially helping families who remain in
Poland and raising concerns over the
political/economic climate in their
homeland.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
Polish Overview/Heritage
? Like any other group that perceives themselves
as unaccepted, displaced, and different, Polish
immigrants established a geographically and
socially segregated area which was called a
“Polonia”.