PS285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Basic Belief, Syphilis, First Nations
Document Summary
Indigenous peoples suffer from more health issues: first nations men overall have a drastically higher death rate than. Indigenous health systems: grounded in holistic views of health, body in connection to other beings, nature and the spirit world, honour indigenous stories and sociocultural contexts, revolve around herbal and spiritual remedies. Culturally competent health care systems: culturally sensitive staff, culturally appropriate material, activities and, translating, needs to be common understanding between providers and patients, need to establish anti-colonial and anti-racist health care environments. Constructivism: many realities that are socially constructed, based on one"s position in life, dialogue, interviews, focus groups, overall goal is to leave the world a better place, more informed than. Interaction between researcher and participant before: greater understanding, more clarity, not action oriented, mainly qualitative. Hierarchy of credibility: how knowledge is hierarchized, arbitrary agreement, according to this, qualitative would fall at the bottom and quantitative at the top.
