Week 5 - Cultural inclusiveness: Safe cultures, healthy indigenous people Flashcards

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There are 9 social determinants of health, what are these?

Memory task

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  • Healthy child development
  • Social support networks
  • Education literacy
  • Employment and working conditions
  • Social environments
  • Physical environments
  • Health practices, coping skills
  • Health services, resources
  • Gender, culture
  • Biology, genetic characteristics
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A treaty was created, this treaty was developed in New Zealand and made a greater progress than Australia in valuing its Indigenous people, what was the treaty called?

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The Treaty of Waitangi.

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In what year did Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issue a public apology to Indigenous people regarding the stolen generation?

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2008

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Social determinants of health, safe, inclusive indigenous cultures includes 10 aspects, very similar to SHDs, but what are these?

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  • Gender
  • Culture
  • Physical environments
  • Social norms, social support nerworks
  • Child development
  • Education, literacy
  • Employment
  • Health practices, coping
  • Socio-economic position (SEP)
  • Biology, genetics
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5
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Memory task:

Trust, reciprocity, participation and belonging are aspects of what?

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Social Capital

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Power and resources that help people maintain social capital in a way that values cultural understandings is what capital?

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Cultural capital

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Non-acceptance of culture by dominant culture is defined as what term?

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Magrinalisation

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Blending of cultures is defined as what term?

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Integration

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People from one culture adopt the values, attitudes and behaviours of another culture is defined as what term?

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Acculturation

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Abandoning culture to become part of the dominant culture is defined as what term?

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Rejection and/or assimliation

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People are not committed to similar goals or ambitions, where decision-making is not based on similar principles and philosophies. Erodes social and cultural capital by causing disharmony is defined as what term?

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Culture conflict

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Viewing the world through one’s own cultural filters, perceiving and interpreting others’ behaviours according to the one’s own believe system and behaviours is defined as what term?

Hint: starts with E

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Ethnocentrism

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An aversion to tolerating other cultures is defined as what term/phobia?

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Xenophobia

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Maintaining feelings of superiority about another race or group which can lead to prejudicial attitudes. when acted on results in discrimination. What term is used to describe this?

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Stereotyping

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A belief in the distinctiveness of human races - the believe that one’’s birth-ascribed race or skin colour is superior to another is defined as what term?

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racisim

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The notion of biological inferiority where offensive behaviours are entrenched in socio-legal structures or scientific research is defined as what term?

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scientific rasim

17
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Using a universal or ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to healthcare is defined as what term?

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Systematic Bias

18
Q

Find the missing term:

Being authentically and culturally inclusive requires both understanding and actions that are __ __.

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Culturally competent

“Being authentically and culturally inclusive requires both understanding and actions that are culturally competent”

19
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Find the missing term:

__ __ is a form of cultural relativism; understanding your own culture in relation to others. __ __ actions promote partnership, participation and cultural protection.

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Cultural Safety

Cultural safety is a form of cultural relativism; understanding your own culture in relation to others. Culturally safe actions promote partnership, participation and cultural protection.

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Find the missing terms:

___ and ___ ___ require acceptance of one another’s culture as the legitimate adaption of different peoples to various historical, natural, socio-economic and political environments.

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Tolerance and social inclusion

tolerance and social inclusion require acceptance of one another’s culture as the legitimate adaption of different peoples to various historical, natural, socio-economic and political environments.

21
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  • Acknowledge and value diversity
  • Provide culturally appropriate care
  • Enable self-determination and reciprocity
  • Hold governments and health planners accountable for meeting the needs of all cultures
  • Manage from culturally competent evidence-base
  • Recognise need for culturally competent training

Are 6 aspects of what system?

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Culturally competent health systems

22
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“People are linked in more ways than their birthplace divides them” is a term to describe what?

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Multiculturalism

Note: The term multiculturalism has been used to camouflage feelings of superiority of one culture over another.

23
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Dominant cultures maintain a position of power over those that are economically dependant on them for survival is a term used to describe what?

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Globalisation.

24
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First or Indigenous peoples or first nations is a term to describe what?

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Aborigional

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Indigenous understandings of health and wellbeing are (4 aspects):
- Holistic - Symbolic - Spiritual - Ecological
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How to Indigenous Australians see "country"?
Mind-body-spirit connection to their land. Country is where an indigenous person's life is steeped in the events and stories of their lives.
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To what degree (years) is life expectancy at birth for indigenous people is less than the rest of the population?
10 - 15
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In indigenous populations around the world, what is the 'greater' rate of infant mortality, than that of the national average?
1.5-3 times higher
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In 2012, a study shown that Indigenous Australians are younger than non-indigenous people due to higher fertility and shower life expectancy, how many years lower?
11-17 years lower
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There are 7 aspects of structural and behavioural impediments to healthy lifestyles, What are these?
- Overcrowding - Lack of access to healthy foods - Few facilities for excersize, recreation - Few culturally appropriate support systems, sources of guidance - Judgemental attitudes, discrimination - Low cultural and social capital - High rates of violence (IPV, neighbourhood violence)
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- Eliminate racism and all forms of discrimination. - Address the social determinants of disadvantage. - Improve child and youth health and wellbeing. - Recognise the uniqueness and importance of Indigenous family and extended family networks. - Promote public acceptance of the unique needs and sensitivities of Indigenous people. - Improve responsiveness of mainstream services and programs. - Recognise the impact of environmental degradation. Are all goals for who?
Goals for Indigenous health
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Memory task: What are the 3 pathways to health? Hint: Prevention
Primary Secondary Teritary preventions
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There are 6 ways of promoting social inclusion, what are these?
- Build healthy public policies - Create services - Strengthen community action - Develop personal skills - Reorient health services - Evidence base