Week 5 - Cultural inclusiveness: Safe cultures, healthy indigenous people Flashcards
There are 9 social determinants of health, what are these?
Memory task
- 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
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?
The Treaty of Waitangi.
In what year did Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issue a public apology to Indigenous people regarding the stolen generation?
2008
Social determinants of health, safe, inclusive indigenous cultures includes 10 aspects, very similar to SHDs, but what are these?
- Gender
- Culture
- Physical environments
- Social norms, social support nerworks
- Child development
- Education, literacy
- Employment
- Health practices, coping
- Socio-economic position (SEP)
- Biology, genetics
Memory task:
Trust, reciprocity, participation and belonging are aspects of what?
Social Capital
Power and resources that help people maintain social capital in a way that values cultural understandings is what capital?
Cultural capital
Non-acceptance of culture by dominant culture is defined as what term?
Magrinalisation
Blending of cultures is defined as what term?
Integration
People from one culture adopt the values, attitudes and behaviours of another culture is defined as what term?
Acculturation
Abandoning culture to become part of the dominant culture is defined as what term?
Rejection and/or assimliation
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?
Culture conflict
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
Ethnocentrism
An aversion to tolerating other cultures is defined as what term/phobia?
Xenophobia
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?
Stereotyping
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?
racisim
The notion of biological inferiority where offensive behaviours are entrenched in socio-legal structures or scientific research is defined as what term?
scientific rasim
Using a universal or ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to healthcare is defined as what term?
Systematic Bias
Find the missing term:
Being authentically and culturally inclusive requires both understanding and actions that are __ __.
Culturally competent
“Being authentically and culturally inclusive requires both understanding and actions that are culturally competent”
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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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?
Culturally competent health systems
“People are linked in more ways than their birthplace divides them” is a term to describe what?
Multiculturalism
Note: The term multiculturalism has been used to camouflage feelings of superiority of one culture over another.
Dominant cultures maintain a position of power over those that are economically dependant on them for survival is a term used to describe what?
Globalisation.
First or Indigenous peoples or first nations is a term to describe what?
Aborigional
Indigenous understandings of health and wellbeing are (4 aspects):
- Holistic
- Symbolic
- Spiritual
- Ecological
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.
To what degree (years) is life expectancy at birth for indigenous people is less than the rest of the population?
10 - 15
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
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
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)
- 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
Memory task: What are the 3 pathways to health?
Hint: Prevention
Primary
Secondary
Teritary preventions
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
