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International culture: refers to cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries through

borrowing or diffusion. Again here, the term “international culture” may seem misleading. So a more
“academic” term may be “global culture”. One of the main aspects of globalization is that a relatively
uniform world culture is taking shape today in the world. The global culture may entail all speaking the
some language, share the same values and norms, and sustain common und of knowledge as of
residents of the same community (Kottak 2002). Global culture may also be associated with cultural
imperialism, the unequal cultural exchange in the global system whereby western material and non-
material cultures have come t.

7.2.4. The Critical Perspective: This theory is also called the “radical political economy”. It is an approach
which stresses on the socio-economic inequality in power and wealth which in turn significantly affects
the health status and access to health care facilities. Individuals, groups, communities and even nations
thus tend to have unbalanced share of health resources; and these often leads to the unequal
distribution of morbidity and mortality patterns among a given society; those in power and dominance
enjoy better health and the marginalized groups suffer from the burden of diseases (Turner, 1987).

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