Italian Health Care Practices

Italian Health Care Practices

Our group chose to do our presentation on Italians simply because we thought it may be interesting to learn about their culture and health practices. Kristin Starner is of Italian descent, and yet she herself doesn’t know much of her own culture’s practices. We figured that there are so many things in America that are Italian (such as cuisine), and yet we don’t really know much about them at all. Since approximately 5.82% (15,916,396 out of 273,643,273) of the US population are Italian, we thought it might be useful to know more about their cultural beliefs and practices in the event that we may interact with them (whether professionally or socially) in the future. (http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?ds_name=D&geo)
Most of the Italians residing here in the Unites States can be found in the North Eastern region. They prefer living together in neighborhoods, such as Little Italy in New York City and North End of Boston. A total of ab...