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Week 5: Health Promotion & Anti-Racism - Coggle Diagram
Week 5: Health Promotion & Anti-Racism
While health promotion recognizes that its approach must acknowledge the health implications of public policy, it often falls short in practice. This is especially true when it comes to structural racism
Racism is often aligned with normative cultures in a way that is dangerously silent.
Sume Ndumbe-Eyoe argues that we must challenge their own states, and actively invest in ensuring that black, brown and indigenous voices are centred in the creation of health promotion knowledge, education and practice. She enforces the importance of recognizing the centrality of race in everyday life.
Inequality produces 40,000 excess deaths per year.
Racism often presents in health promotion in the form of silence, absence or exclusion.
Severe lack of research on systemic or institutionalized racism.
Racialized academics often excluded or under-engaged in shaping critical perspectives
Health promotion cannot be neutral: It either contributes to the destruction of harmful structures or it enforces them.
The paternalistic need to be "correct" or evidence informed in practice can inadvertently dismiss the importance of drawing on cultural wisdom in health promotion practice
Anti-Racist Praxis is critical for the future of health promotion
It can help to creating a vision for future goals while breaking down an issue into its structural componants.
There are 5 key elements of antiracism Praxis: Reflexive relational practice, structural power analysis, systems change theory, sociopolitical education and monitoring progress.
Anti-racism is a process, not a status, and different people may view this process differently
This week's literature seems to suggest two contrasting yet complimentary approaches to anti-racism work.
Derek Griffith and Heather Cane state that "successful interventions need to be targeted, context specific and focused on changing behaviour rather than deeply held attitudes or beliefs." They also mention that racism can be viewed as an issue of policy, not people.
Sume Ndumbe-Eyoe implies that Focussing too heavily on individual predjudice and racist behaviours undermines the point that racism is embedded in the health system and in health promotion.
A decolonial framework should be applied in health promotion in order to reduce health inequities.
A decolonial framework applies a 9-step process of Reflection, Planning and Action. Reflection requires assessing colonization's effects, critiquing the status quo and centering margionalised voices. Planning requires dialogue and honoring diverse ways of knowing. Action implies community mobilization and social justice activities that centre self-determination.
The acts of questioning of conventional ways of knowing and partnering with marginalized communities are central.