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Indigenous health promotion, Weekly Reading Assignment - Week 7, Archana G…
Indigenous health promotion
Indigenous communities are resisting the health promotion because of the externally imposed control over their lives
Cultural safety is a power full concept to reflect on how health promotion can reorient health services and foster equitable health policies
Indigenous health promotion needs greater emphasis in cultural sensitivity
Acknowledge the impact of colonialism and racism
Involve them in the decision making (community participation)
Acknowledge the indigenous people right and self determination
Cultural competencies
Cultural awareness
Health promotion actors have the collective responsibility in providing culturally safety
To create a culturally safe health policies and program in which the communities have the control.
Renew and strengthen the commitment of governments and public institutions
Change from controlling to connecting with the community for truth building and sustainable relationship
Ways of re establishing and nourishing the relationships broken by the colonialism
Culturally specific programs
Conduct community wide events
Youth development opportunities
culturally safe community-generated solutions
Health promotion needs a paradigm shift in addressing the colonisation effect faced by Indigenous people
Equity based approach to system transformation in reorienting health services.
Move from its ‘neutral’ position to become a more vocal actor engaged in the fight against complex systems of oppression.
Social and cultural determinants of health of the Indigenous communities are linked with the ongoing history of colonialism.
Resulted
Forced assimilation
Genocide
Relocation
Institutional violence
Forced displacement
systemic racism
Culturally blind public health policies and programs are developed which worsen the existing conditions of inequities and planetary health
Barriers in accessing the health services
Intergenerational poverty & traumas
Inequitable treatments
Social deprivation
Housing issues
Family violence
increase vulnerability and food insecurity
Poor physical and mental health
Indigenous ways and knowledge systems are important in promoting planetary health, health equity and sustainable development.
Weekly Reading Assignment - Week 7
Archana G - 301468631