Lecture 1: Honouring Indigenous Experiences and Worldviews of Health Flashcards
Health is a ______ construct
Colonial
Four sections on the medicine wheel
Balance of body, mind, emotions and spirit
What does the indigenous approaches to health recognize?
The healing journey. There is no beginning or end. Being on a journey of restoring balance.
What are the 8 stages of the life cycle?
Infant, toddler, child, youth, young adult, parent, grandparent and elder / traditional teacher
How do the seven phases of life differ from the eight stages?
The seven phases specifically focus on the spiritual journey of a person and emphasizes the journey of self-discovery and fulfilling one’s life purpose within an indigenous framework.
What are the seven phases of life?
The good life, the fast life, the wondering life, the stages of truth, planting and planning, doing, and the elder and giving back life
What dues each phase of life mean for us?
It is for our roles, responsibilities and purposes. It’s about finding our beliefs and value systems.
What is spiritual health understood by Brant-Castellano?
- sustained relationships with family and friends
- enlarged through reconnecting to land
- spread by service to community
- inspired by joy and energy of children
- undermined by anything that assaults/affects community vitality
What does all our relations means?
We are all part of something greater than ourselves and we are all connected whether we understand it or don’t.
What is successfully negotiating a holistic approach in life?
The need to continually maintain harmony and balance in all things
What is Dr. Nadines main take away of being Canada’s first indigenous surgeon?
Being the first shouldn’t mean to be the only
What is the best determinant of indigenous health described by prof. Day
Culture
What happens if we do not understand over histories?
We will repeat them.
What is the greatest opportunity for the improvement of the health outcomes of indigenous communities and nations?
The repositioning, revaluing, and reinvigoration of traditional indigenous healing practices and concepts, both in the education of health professionals and in the delivery of health and health services
Critical elements of indigenous health
- Land as health
- Language as health
- Relationships as health
What is the best protection of indigenous knowledge as explained by steinhauer and lamouche?
Language
What happens when we translate to English?
We lose meaning, the culture, and the teachings
The key message of “The good path” article
Relationships are health
The way back to good health is? As explained by steinhauer and lamouche
Through the restoration of the relationships between land, language and culture.
What are reciprocal relations about?
Acknowledge and make space for diverse ways of knowing, doing and being to exist equally