Towards an Aboriginal Knowledge Place: Cultural Practices as a Pathway to Wellness in the Context of a Tertiary Hospital
| Autor: | Jo Winther, Janet McGaw, Moira Rayner, Alasdair Vance |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Affirmative action
business.industry Cultural safety Context (language use) Public relations Mental health Indigenous 030227 psychiatry 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health care Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Social science business Inclusion (education) Disadvantage |
| Zdroj: | IndraStra Global. |
| ISSN: | 2381-3652 |
| Popis: | The Indigenous community in Australia is beset by extraordinary disadvantage, with health outcomes that are substantially worse than those of non-Indigenous citizens. This issue has consequently been the subject of voluminous health research that has given rise to a range of affirmative action policies progressively implemented over the past decade. Statistics, however, remain dire. This paper argues that new models of research practice and policy are required that are inclusive of Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, and being. It proposes a new framework to promote wellness in urban hospitals for Aboriginal young people and their families modelled on equal, 2-way dialogue between Western and Indigenous ways of doing health. Cultural safety is an essential starting point, but a range of other practices is proposed including oversight by a board of Elders, inclusion of traditional healers in treatment teams, and “space, place, and base” within the hospital building and its grounds so that it can be used as a site for culturally engaged Indigenous outpatient care. Practice approaches that embed culture into assessment, formulation, and treatment are being trialled by the authors of this paper, three of whom have Aboriginal heritage. Together the authors are working toward building an Aboriginal Knowledge Place within the major teaching hospital where they work. |
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