cultural safety and humility

Question 1

healthy equity

Answer 1

absence of avoidable and remedial differences, those with less may need a bit more to reach equivalent health outcomes

Question 2

health equality

Answer 2

everyone gets the same

Question 3

health inequity

Answer 3

socially constructed, unjust and avoidable differences in health and healthcare between and within groups of people

Question 4

why is equity based care important

Answer 4

better patient health outcomes

Question 5

equity based care benefits: clients

Answer 5

receive better care, trust the healthcare system, better health outcomes

Question 6

equity based care benefits: providers

Answer 6

if you are able to help them or work with them to improve their health, feel accomplished, doing the right thing

Question 7

equity based care benefits: organizations

Answer 7

positive press, saves money

Question 8

3 components of equity based care

Answer 8

trauma and violence informed care, culturally safe care, harm reduction

Question 9

trauma and violence informed care

Answer 9

focuses on understanding the impacts of trauma, creating environments that promote emotional and physical safety. Considering trauma when making decisions, making sure people have safe, comfortable access to health care

Question 10

why is tvic important

Answer 10

moves us beyond individual pathology to focus on health and social service providers attention on structures and systems that cause the continuance of violence

Question 11

structural violence

Answer 11

not physical, but not providing equal access to services, societies are organized in ways that grossly disadvantage some groups over others

Question 12

vicarious trauma

Answer 12

negative reaction to trauma exposure and includes psychological symptoms that are similar to experiencing trauma directly

Question 13

compassion fatigue

Answer 13

form of vicarious trauma when providers are affected by seeing the impact of the conditions of peoples lives, as well as by obvious acts of violence people suffer

Question 14

intergenerational trauma

Answer 14

vicarious trauma people that have not actually experience but have seen it and suffer the effects, residential schools, violence passed down etc.

Question 15

cultural safety

Answer 15

knowing your culture will not be judged, involves asking questions and being open to learn, not assuming, impossible to know everyones culture, decided by client

Question 16

inherent power imbalance: cultural safety

Answer 16

between the health care or social service provider and the person coming to you for care, must take into account

Question 17

cultural sensitivity

Answer 17

cultural safety moves beyond cultural sensitivity to place responsibility on care providers to create more culturally safe environments

Question 18

shifting attention away from cultural differences : cultural safety

Answer 18

shift attention away from cultural differences as the source of the problem to the culture of health care as the site when health providers can take acton to create safety for all

Question 19

cultural humility

Answer 19

“lifelong process of self reflection and self critique to understand personal bias and to develop and maintain respectful partnerships based on mutual trust. Cultural humility involves humbly acknowledging oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding another’s experience

Question 20

why focus on cultural safety for indigenous people

Answer 20

indigenous people in Canada have and continue to experience the most profound impacts of colonization, including deliberate destruction of Indigenous cultures and languages, removal from their lands, and apprehension of Indigenous children by the state. Canadian society has a long way to go to try to repair these wrongs, and like other systems in Canada, health care creates and maintains systemic racism and negative stereotypes about Indigenous people.

Question 21

harm reduction

Answer 21

philosophy and set a programs and services, focusing on preventing the harms of substance use, not reducing substance per se, viewing substance use as a health issue, evidence based repsonse

Question 22

Practicing harm reduction means

Answer 22

accepting people, no judgement, emphasizing dignity, compassion, challenging policies and practices that cause unnecessary harm