“…Although indigenous traditions of self-care were present among African Americans from their arrival in the United States, 6 civil rights emancipatory projects focused on protesting the exclusionary, dehumanizing, and stratified nature of medical particularly influential and is the subject of ongoing empirical refinement and investigations of cross-cultural applicability. [16][17][18][19] Orem defined self-care as learned behavior that was purposeful, with patterned and sequenced actions, and suggested that individuals acquire the capacity for self-care during childhood, principally in the family, where cultural standards are learned and transmitted intergenerationally. 15(p95) She observed that self-care develops throughout the life course, and that such behavior varies according to an individual's group affiliation in habits, beliefs, and practices that constitute a cultural way of life.…”