Week 1

Question 1

What is welcome to country? Who performs it?

Answer 1

Conducted in country of welcoming, when visiting and stepping on land. Only made by traditional owners of the land where the ceremony is taking place on.

Question 2

What is the ‘close the gap’ campaign

Answer 2

Achieve A&TSI health equality (measured through life expectancy) by 2030.

Question 3

What is the cultural security scale?

Answer 3

Coffin’s 2007 cultural security scale explains how to achieve cultural security. By first ensuring cultural awareness and then cultural safety is achieved along with brokerage and protocols.

Question 4

Aboriginal definition of health

Answer 4

Not just the physical wellbeing of the indidivual, but also the social, emotional and cultural wellbeing of the entire community, in which each individual is able to reach their full potential and bring about the total wellbeing of their community.