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Anti racism and Health promotion, Week 5 Reading Assignment, Archana G-…
Anti racism and Health promotion
The framework has 3 domains that will be helpful for the full engagement in decolonial process for the health promotion practioners
Planning- active participation with the knowledge owners
Engage in mutual dialogue
Honoring wisdom with accountability
Action - collective action to undo the effects of colonial legacy.
Mobilizing communities and building alliances
Engaging in social justice practices
Placing self - determination at the core of the activities.
Reflection - Practitioners should ‘decolonizing one’s mind
Decentering frame of reference
Critique of current paradigms - Two eyed seeing approach
Assessing long term effects of colonialism
Addressing health inequities created by the colonial legacy
System level
Changing or modifying the economic system/ structural racism
Adjusting how governments operate
Shifting how these issues are understood by the policy makers and the public
Individual level - Improve health and reduce health inequities without addressing the upstream determinants
Enhancing the individual coping strategy
Building connections and networks
Reducing risk behaviors (adapting healthy lifestyles)
The next step for the health promoters is to assist the people and others engaged in public policy advocacy.
Through focus on education and knowledge transmission
Telling stories
community members to provide their own critical reflections on society, power and inequality
Providing support for policy action
Telling the solid facts
Publicize the findings from the analyses of the root causes of health inequities
Ongoing impact of Colonial subjugation and trauma can results societal and health inequities
Intergenerational trauma
Systemic marginalization
Disruption of economy
Physical and mental violence
Separation from the spiritual homeland
Racism, oppression, exploitation
Increased disability
Deterioration in the social environment
Decolonisation combines the critical reflective process of unmasking the pervasive influences of the colonial legacy on the lives of People impacted by colonial legacy (PCL)
Decolonial framework for health promotion was developed to unmask the influence of colonial legacy
Recognise the structural impacts of colonisation
Engage with impacted communities to achieve health equity.
Challenges in addressing the decolonisation
Process of decolonization is not straight forward
Colonial Amnesia
Power sharing between the practitioners and the community members.
Week 5 Reading Assignment
Archana G- 301468631