Cultural characteristics: Communication patterns, spatial considerations, social organization, time considerations, locus on environmental control. Current health issues: life expectancy, common diseases conditions. Statements needs to be accurate, opinions to be adequately supported, sources to be identified and appropriately documented.
Healthcare delivery issues: Acceptable/taboo behaviors for healthcare providers, role of family members as caregivers, use of folk remedies, beliefs about reactions to illness, beliefs about reactions to death.
