INDH1006 Lecture 1: Notes 1
26 May 2018
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Course
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Notes 1 – Welcome to country and acknowledgement of Country
Learning outcomes
The cultural security scale
Cultural
Awareness
Brokerage
Cultural
Safety
Protocols
Cultural
Security
Sustainability
Involves
understanding
Aboriginal
and Torres
Strait
Islander
peoples by
learning
about their
beliefs,
values,
practices and
experiences.
It’s about
obtaining
cultural
knowledge.
Understanding
successful and
safe practice.
It involves two
way
communication
where both
health
practitioner
and Aboriginal
clients are
equally
informed and
equally
important in
the discussion.
Communication
and respect
are of the
utmost
importance,
values and
ideas are not
pushed but
considerations
from both
sides are
equally
regarded.
It involves
self-
awareness.
It’s about
Focuses on
the
subjective
experience
of the
Aboriginal
person who
uses the
health
services,
whereby
they
experience
an
environment
that does
not
challenge,
assault or
deny their
cultural
identity.
It’s about
the
Aboriginal
and Torres
Strait
Islander
person
feeling safe.
Strategy
that can
take a
culturally
safe practice
to a
culturally
secure one.
They
formalise
the fact that
in an
Aboriginal
context,
health care
delivery and
programs
need to be
done in
consultation
with the
elders and
key
stakeholders
within the
particular
community
(or context).
It’ about
developing
culturally
tailored
interventions
to improve
All health
care
providers,
doctors,
speech
pathologists,
social
workers,
school
nurses,
dentists, etc.
need to
provide this
no matter
what their
role in
provision of
health care.
It’s about
intercultural
teams
working
together to
provide
culturally
secure
services.
Maintenance of
culturally secure
environments. There
is a need to evaluate
a systems-level
intervention that
combines best-
evidence strategies to
reduce disparities in
healthcare delivery to
and Torres Strait
Islander Australians.
It’s about the
consistent delivery
of high quality care
for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait
Islander people.
1. Explain the title of this unit ‘Indigenous Cultures and Health Behaviours’ as key
concepts.
2. Explain the expectations of the INDH1006 unit.
3. Identify and explain the underlying attitudes and beliefs of students with
regards to this being a core unit.
4. Understand the purpose of, and the difference between, the protocols; Welcome
to Country and Acknowledgement of Country.
5. Recognise health as a human right and recognise that a definition of health is
not static.
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Document Summary
Notes 1 welcome to country and acknowledgement of country. Islander peoples by learning about their beliefs, values, practices and experiences. It involves two way communication where both health practitioner and aboriginal clients are equally informed and equally important in the discussion. Communication and respect are of the utmost importance, values and ideas are not pushed but considerations from both sides are equally regarded. There is a need to evaluate a systems-level intervention that combines best- evidence strategies to reduce disparities in healthcare delivery to and torres strait. It"s about the consistent delivery of high quality care for aboriginal and. All health care providers, doctors, speech pathologists, social workers, school nurses, dentists, etc. need to provide this no matter what their role in provision of health care. It"s about intercultural teams working together to provide culturally secure services. Aboriginal person who uses the health services, whereby they experience an environment that does not challenge, assault or deny their cultural identity.
