Our current healthcare system is ill-equipped to deal with mental health issues, especially among people from various ethnic and racial backgrounds. You have selected to discuss the Asian ethnicity. For this assignment: Define ethnomedicine for the selected ethnicity/race and correlate to cultural values. Discuss some of the reasons that hinder access to the appropriate mental health care for some cultures/ethnicities as it relates their values and practices. Specifically discuss any barrier to care for the ethnicity/race you selected. Discuss why you made this selection. Describe how the design or implementation of healthcare programs or policies can assist public health professionals in alleviating these cultural barriers when it comes to mental healh issues and assistance. Provide specific examples.

Our current healthcare system is ill-equipped to deal with mental health issues, especially among people from various ethnic and racial backgrounds. You have selected to discuss the Asian ethnicity. For this assignment: Define ethnomedicine for the selected ethnicity/race and correlate to cultural values. Discuss some of the reasons that hinder access to the appropriate mental health care for some cultures/ethnicities as it relates their values and practices. Specifically discuss any barrier to care for the ethnicity/race you selected. Discuss why you made this selection. Describe how the design or implementation of healthcare programs or policies can assist public health professionals in alleviating these cultural barriers when it comes to mental healh issues and assistance. Provide specific examples.