How health and illness beliefs can influence the assessment process

Health and illness beliefs can greatly influence the assessment process as the medical provider cannot completely get enough facts as the patient relies first on her or his beliefs. The client could also not be that cooperative especially if the procedure is against his or her belief for instance in the case of a Jehovas witness client that needs to prepare for blood transfusion, one would not do it as it is against his or her belief.

Ithink the correct answer would be that since the disease is passed by a hand shake and can be cured with antibiotics that it could be an infection. an example could be that once when i was working in a bush camp, i got blood poisoning from blood blisters that got infected. our cook did not wash his hands after going to the bathroom and he passed staphyloccus on to the crew he fed. one other person also got a bad similar infection on the side of his face. i had to be rescued by helicopter and taken to the hospital so i wouldn't die!