ipl-logo

Critical Analysis Of The Article 'The World Is So White'

1785 Words8 Pages

Critical Review of Journal Article The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of the research article “The world is so White”: Improving Cultural Safety in Healthcare Systems for Australian Indigenous People with Rheumatic Heart Disease” written by Mitchell et al. (2022). The study objective is to examine senior health system knowledge holders, including Aboriginal experts, in contexts where elimination approaches for Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) are implemented. As part of their study, the researchers assessed the feasibility of implementing the Rheumatic Heart Disease Endgame Strategy by conducting interviews to determine how these strengths-based strategies could be implemented. The study involved in-depth interviews …show more content…

(2014) supported that Aboriginal healthcare providers best understand Aboriginal ways and needs within the Australian healthcare system riddled with racial and ethnic inequities. The researchers argued that White (non-Indigenous) healthcare providers do not understand Aboriginal practices and the intrinsic complexities and inequities within the Australian healthcare system. The researchers also argued that non-Aboriginal healthcare providers find it challenging to give Aboriginal patients an authentic voice that may improve their overall health and well-being when living with chronic diseases (Rix et al., 2014). They refer to the Australian healthcare system as an alien biomedical world to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations (Rix et al., 2014). It further broadens the tensions in the intersections of worldviews in the Australian healthcare system and, by extension, health …show more content…

The results from the interviews by Mitchell et al. (2022) supported this by arguing that non-Indigenous healthcare practitioners find it very stressful to provide care and work in Aboriginal communities. Most find serving Aboriginal communities a sense of obligation, after which they state that they have done their time (Mitchell et al., 2022). It reveals the ever-present tension in the Australian healthcare system in the intersections of worldviews that limit the preventive care for RHD and the provision of culturally-informed and sensitive care. In addition, Fogarty et al. (2018) assessed that this reflects the deficit discourse in Indigenous healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Show More
Related
1566 Words | 7 Pages

Using Anne Fadiman’s book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down I have created a cultural assessment of the Hmong people and their experiences with the American healthcare system. This small Southeast Asian minority known as the Hmong began moving to the United States towards the end of the Vietnam War. This brought a whole new set of challenges for the healthcare providers of the United States due to their cultural beliefs and native practices which made it difficult to perform certain forms of medicine. Doctors and nurses had to find different ways to treat these patients without violating their cultural beliefs or upsetting them.

Read More
1234 Words | 5 Pages

Finally, As Ring and Elston (1999: 231) argued, “the current situation [in funding for Indigenous health], where the Commonwealth is spending perhaps a fifth of what it should be spending on a needs basis, is a major impediment to effective reconciliation”. Altman and Hunter (2003) also questioned the effectiveness of the Howard Government’s emphasis on ‘practical’ reconciliation. They concluded that, “while practical reconciliation forms the rhetorical basis for Indigenous policy development since 1996, there is no evidence that the Howard governments have delivered better outcomes for Indigenous Australians than their predecessors” (Altman and Hunter 2003: v; see also Hunter and Schwab 2003: 94-96; Ross 2001: 155; Wyatt 2001: 181-182; Gunstone 2007). Therefore as the above evidence suggests, eleven years after the announcement of this “practical reconciliation” policy, Indigenous socio economic disadvantage

Read More
817 Words | 4 Pages

Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe without researching the details of the case is fairly elementary. A student council chaplain delivered a prayer before each football game. A Mormon, as well as a Catholic family, filed suit under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. With just an overview of the case, you wonder what drove those families to file suit. After reading chapter five of God on Trial it gave me more understanding behind the families and the main individuals that were apart of the case.

Read More
994 Words | 4 Pages

Throughout this analysis we will take a critical look at the aboriginal identity, the suffering these people go through mentally and physically, and their relationship with the government (Anzovino & Boutilier 2015). The

Read More
851 Words | 4 Pages

McLeod’s essay builds it case thoroughly. Starting off with a strong thesis of ‘The inequities of indigenous health’ and any connected crisis and ending with it ‘isn’t just about the direct health effects of COVID-19’ and the social and economic implications that come with it “Health and welfare implications related to multiple issues such as disability, care and protection… will all differentially affect Māori.”(McLeod). Whereas, Ngata’s essay has many powerful arguments in its passages and a high intensity throughout, relying heavily on emotionalism and loaded language. The essay’s main thesis is not clearly stated in its introduction and instead builds it in the body paragraphs. Ngata writes “You see, we don’t forget our dead… We immortalise their stories in carved pou on our marae so that we speak of their experiences when we gather.

Read More
902 Words | 4 Pages

Like many articles on Aboriginal Peoples issues, Anna Banerji’s CBC article “Improving Indigenous Health Starts With Reconciliation” (Banerji, 2015), is a critique on the treatment of Native Peoples in Canada. Her main thesis focuses on the inequality that exists in Canada, by underscoring the biases and discriminations perpetrated on Indigenous Peoples, in terms of basic human rights. Banerji’s advocacy, although commendable, leaves an empty space, in terms of both a governmental (policy) perspective, and her own assertion’s credibility, due to her writing style and content. These ingredients are essential for an understanding by the target audience (Canadians, in general), as it could allow for a powerful critique on the human rights violations

Read More
895 Words | 4 Pages

To improve health outcomes in the Doomadgee community, it is crucial to address the social, historical, and political factors that have led to health inequities. One approach to achieving this is through the principles of culturally safe health care. Culturally safe health care refers to health care that is respectful, inclusive, and appropriate for Indigenous Australians and their communities. Two principles of culturally safe health care that could have been utilized to improve Betty Booth's health outcomes are the principle of cultural responsiveness and the principle of

Read More
106 Words | 1 Pages

Health outcomes refers to the effect healthcare activities have on an individual, group or population. It 's evident that even with the presence of anti-discrimination and equal opportunities legislation, Indigenous Australians have inferior health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians. The dissimilarities in health status between Native and non-Native Australians are closely linked with the allocation of health determinants such as income levels and housing conditions, education levels and access to healthcare services. Income levels and housing conditions can easily be identified as an important determinant of health. Many health outcomes, including life expectancy and infant mortality can be associated with inequalities of income distribution

Read More
974 Words | 4 Pages

This sudden change still has an enormous effect on today’s Indigenous population. How is it fair that the oldest population of people die a decade younger than non-Indigenous Australians? The perpetuation of racism which is manifested in our society has left many Indigenous Australians in a disadvantaged position. Including through, limited access to education with adult literacy rates of just 30 percent and literacy rates of children under 15 more than 48 percent lower than non-Indigenous Australians, consequently means lower educational achievement rates and higher unemployment rates of 17.2 percent compared to 5.5 percent for non-Indigenous Australians (Australian Bureau of Statistics , 2013 ). These facts must be recognised to ensure real equality and a fair-go for Indigenous people.

Read More
323 Words | 2 Pages

Colonialism has been a huge factor that has and will attempt to make aboriginal people conform to new cultural norms. Residential schools have been the most well-known way as to how colonialism affected these people. What society is not aware of is the cruelty of hospitalization of aboriginals, where unethical procedures took place using them as subjects without consent. As Dr Geddes stated during his lecture, the Canadian health care system has racism embedded in it. Stripping indigenous people of the proper health care which they have the right to receive, but kept from due to their racial status.

Read More
598 Words | 3 Pages

Canada is known for its amazing healthcare and it is considered one of the best in the world. In Canada, healthcare is ‘universal’ to its citizens under the Heath Care Act. However, not everyone has equal access to healthcare, Aboriginals being some of them. Aboriginals have trouble getting the access they need because of socio-economic status, geography, lack of infrastructure and staff, language or cultural barriers an more. Aboriginals on reserve face many barriers when it comes to access to healthcare, they include cost, language, distance, climate, education and more.

Read More
1861 Words | 8 Pages

Disadvantage and marginalisation of indigenous Australian 's began with the dispossession of land, displacement of their people, and separation of families. Indigenous Australian 's have difficulty in gaining access, to the same degree, to what white Australian 's have ready access such as housing, employment and general services. Indigenous Australian 's are one of the most disadvantaged groups in this country in social and economic areas such as employment, housing, income, and health. The burden of poor health among aborigines is of particular concern. The health disadvantage of indigenous people begins in infancy and continues throughout their life.

Read More
776 Words | 4 Pages

Title: Part A Reflective Journals Student Name: Hannah Warren Student ID Number: 17759577 Email Address: Hannah.warren@student.curtin.edu.au School/Department: Unit: Indigenous Cultures and Health INDH1000 Tutor Name: Due Date: Monday 30th March, 2015 by 11.55pm Declaration: I declare that this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted in any form for another unit, degree or diploma at any university or other institute of tertiary education.

Read More
719 Words | 3 Pages

Cultural safety could be a thought that emerged within the late Eighties as a framework for the delivery of additional acceptable health services and is drawn from the work of Maori nurses in New Zealand. Additional recently it 's become recognized that the thought is helpful all told health care settings irrespective of indigenous matter peoples. Cultural safety is regarding making associate setting wherever the Aboriginal or Torres Strait inhabitant person isn 't solely treated well and during a culturally respectful manner, however they 're conjointly actively participate in interactions, basic cognitive process they 're valued, understood and brought seriously and supported to hold out culturally important tasks as a part of service delivery. A ordinarily used definition of cultural safety is

Read More
1151 Words | 5 Pages

The colonization of Indigenous peoples has dramatically affected their health, and health-seeking behaviours, in a myriad of ways. The Indian Act of 1876 was, in essence, created to control the Indigenous population. The Indian Act laid out laws and regulations that tightly regulated the lives of natives economically, ideologically, and politically. This included a wealth of ways in which their identities were stripped away, and in which they were taken advantage of by the Government of Canada. This has resulted in a reduced quality of life for Canada 's indigenous population, as well as adverse health problems, and prejudicial perceptions that we still see the impact of today.

Read More

More about Critical Analysis Of The Article 'The World Is So White'

Related Topics

Open Document