Midwifery

Definition of culture, factors forming culture; varieties of culture; basic concepts of intercultural communication; factors affecting intercultural communication; customs and traditions, cultural structures, attitudes, prejudices and discriminations; human and cultural structure, cultural differences and similarities; the use of models in intercultural care and culture-based health care models; health, illness and cultural interaction; relationship between women and midwives in different cultures; immigration and its cultural impact; traditional/cultural practices for pregnancy and puerperium in Turkey; Traditional/cultural practices for the newborn period in Turkey.

By providing the cultural characteristics and cultural changes of society; to teach transcultural midwifery care approaches emphasizing the importance of women, newborns and children as primers, and the importance of transcultural midwifery care in the protection and development of family and community health as a secondary.