culture-specific care those assistive, supportive, or facilitative acts toward or for an individual or group with evident or anticipated needs that are congruent with the values and lifestyles of an individual, family, or group of a specific culture, as used in the cultural care diversity and universality theory.
The endocrine system is made up of glands that produce and secrete hormones, chemical substances produced in the body that regulate the activity of cells or organs. These hormones regulate the body's growth, metabolism (the physical and chemical processes of the body), and sexual development and function. The hormones are released into the bloodstream and may affect one or several organs throughout the body.
These glands are also called 'ductless glands' meaning that the glands directly empty the hormones into the bloodstream. There are four types of hormones, namely, steroid, lipid, protein and amino acid hormones. Hormones control the various metabolic activities of the body.They help to provide the proper amount of energy and nutrition your body needs to function.arious endocrine glands secrete hormones into the blood, which carries them throughout the body. When a hormone arrives at its target organ or tissue it causes certain actions to take place. Hormones may be grouped according to the functions they control.