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Health Promotion and Anti-Racism - Coggle Diagram
Health Promotion and Anti-Racism
Health promotion must use theoretical and epistemic approaches that center on the knowledge and perspectives of BIPOC communities in national and global knowlede production activities.
Health promotion products cannot be neutral; they either uphold the current norms of racialized inequities or they can actively challenge them.
Using an applied decolonial framework integrates decolonial processes into health promotion practice and is intended to help health promotion stakeholders address the colonizing structures and work towards achieving social justice and health equity.
The framework encourages practitioners to pay atttention to the historical context of the colonial legacy and its multigenerational effects on present-day well-being.
The framework treates local wisdom of communities as valid forms of knowledge
The framework is action-oriented and combines critical reflection of colonial forces with mutual planning and collective action to undue the effects of the colonial legacy
An anti-racism approach includes a structural analysis that recognizes that the world is controlled by systems stemming from hisotrical roots that disproportionately benefit/ hurt others; there are five key elements of anti-racism praxis.
The first element is reflexive relational practice that highlights listening, respect, understanding, relationship building and states that individuals must critically analyze and commit to a process of self-awareness and self-actualization
The second element is structural power analysis that focuses on understanding csources of formal and informal power through conducting an analysis of the organization, institution, or setting to examine how racism manifests in those settings.
The third element is the systems change theory that critically examines a system's core values and assumptions, social and organizational context and consequences, the relationship among monitoring and evaluation methods, the relationship among explanations of the problem, and actions to achieve health and social equity.
The fourth element is sociopolitical education that focuses on creating new ways of thinking in examining a problem and cultivating solutions
The final element is monitoring progress that uses process, impact, and outcome evaluation data to monitor policies and practices, measure racism, and guide where and how to intervene.
As measures are taken to reduce the health gap between the rich and everybody else, the increases in socialcohesion and solidarity and reductions in class-related conflicts will promote the health of all
Health inequities can be reduced by changing the economic system, adjusting how governmetns operate ands hifting how these issues are understood by policy-makers and the public
Health promotion can work to reduce health inequities by informing citizens about the political and economic forces that
shape the health of a society.
There are multiple contributing factors that influence health inequities.
Access to and quality of healthcare and social services: Particular individuals have less access to necessary services, or these services may be
of less than optimal quality.
Modifiable medical and behavioural risk factors
Differences in material living conditions (ex. employment and working conditions).
Differences in material living conditions shaped by public policy: primary means of reducing health inequities is through public policy action.
Economic and poltiical structures and their justifying ideologies: differences in political and economic structures and processes (political economy)—themselves a result of historical traditions and governance by
specific political parties over time—determine the living conditions Canadians experience
Those who create and benefit from health inequities: these individuals and groups lobby for shifting the tax structures to favour the corporate sector and the wealthy, reducing public expenditures, controlling wages and employment benefits, and relaxing labour standards and protections.