Sentences with phrase «cultural determinants of»

The report also calls on governments to take account of the social and cultural determinants of health, and asks the Federal Government to initiate a national inquiry into racism in hospitals and other health care settings to identify and counter racism's impact on health care.

Once these targets have been developed, they will provide a foundation for the Steering Committee to actively engage with sectors beyond the health sector, and with responsibilities in relation to the social and cultural determinants of Indigenous health.

Uniquely, the Steering Committee is also developing cultural determinants of health that will reflect the importance of strong and thriving cultures to the health, notably the mental health, of Indigenous Australians.

The Health Plan and the COAG Closing the Gap Agenda commits government to action on the social and cultural determinants of health including education and employment.

Wyatt said the acknowledgement of racism as a critical component for health in the National Health Plan was a «huge step forward» and said he was delighted the Implementation Plan had «sown seeds to tackle social and cultural determinants of health», which he said contributed to 31 per cent of the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Of particular importance for all levels of government, is to develop a more comprehensive approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health that encompasses the social and cultural determinants of health.

My Life My Lead: Opportunities for strengthening approaches to the social determinants and cultural determinants of Indigenous Health: Report on the national consultations December 2017.

Special consideration is given to the following topics: models of individual - society relationships; social cognition and attribution processes; social influence processes; prosocial and altruistic behavior; and antisocial behavior (models of human violence and social - cultural determinants of prejudice).

«From here, we must all ensure implementation of the plan, including addressing the wider social and cultural determinants of health and wellbeing.»

Note: My Life My Lead — Opportunities for strengthening approaches to the social determinants and cultural determinants of Indigenous health: Report on the national consultations December 2017, 2017 Commonwealth of Australia December 2017.

The challenge now is how to build on that foundation — how to implement the commitments and agreements we have secured in a comprehensive, integrated and coordinated manner and across all the necessary government portfolios, in a way that addresses not only health but also the many social and cultural determinants of Indigenous health inequality.

The Minister, who this year became Australia's first Indigenous member of a Federal Ministry, told the conference the acknowledgement of racism as a critical component for health in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan was a «huge step forward» and he believed the subsequent Implementation Plan has «sown seeds to tackle social and cultural determinants of health», which he said contributed to 31 per cent of the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

«The IPAG Consultation 2017 will consider more broadly the social and cultural determinants of Indigenous health, by examining the integral and supportive role culture plays, and by addressing how social factors such as education, employment, justice, income and housing impact at each stage of life, on a person's health and wellbeing.»

In sharing some experiences of racism and violence within his family as a young boy, Darren Parker highlights the importance of the social and cultural determinants of health in any discussion about the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

«Exploring and articulating the cultural determinants of health acknowledges the extensive and well - established knowledge networks that exist within communities, the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service movement, human rights and social justice sectors,» she said.

The cultural determinants of health originate from and promote a strength based perspective, acknowledging that stronger connections to culture and country build stronger individual and collective identities, a sense of self - esteem, resilience, and improved outcomes across the other determinants of health including education, economic stability and community safety.

Coupled with genuine engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, this will provide the basis for the generational change and commitment that is clearly necessary in order to deal with the fundamental issues which are the social, economic and cultural determinants of health and wellbeing.

Professor Ngiare Brown's presentation on resilience and the cultural determinants of health generated plenty of Twitter interest..

Lisa Briggs: The Social and Cultural Determinants of Health are important, and these are a few underpinning examples:

«The ATSISPEP Team believes that this Report should be considered by all Government agencies, particularly in relation to social and cultural determinants of health.

• Prof Ngiare Brown on the cultural determinants of health • Previewing the summit and some suggestions for Q and A

The draft, which is open for comment until December 10, acknowledges the role of institutional racism «as a factor that impacts on health service delivery» and of the «ongoing importance of research into the social and cultural determinants of health as well as health system, service delivery and translational research».

He explored the critical role of social justice, social and cultural determinants of health and increasing the numbers of Native Hawaiian medical practitioners in achieving «Mauli Ola» or optimal health and wellbeing for all Native Hawaiians.

Transcultural Psychiatry provides a channel of communication for psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, and social scientists concerned with the social and cultural determinants of psychopathology and psychosocial treatments of mental and behavioural problems in individuals, families and communities.

Azzopardi, who has worked as an adolescent physician in Aboriginal communities and undertook the study as part of his PhD, said he believes the big focus on the social and cultural determinants of health «is a particular strength of this study».

She is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Native Hawaiian Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the UH Manoa, where her primary research interests are in health disparities, social and cultural determinants of health, community - based participatory research, and patient safety.»

Cultural psychiatry is concerned with the social and cultural determinants of psychopathology and psychosocial treatments of the range of mental and behavioural problems in individuals, families and communities.

NHLF describes racism as a key social and cultural determinant of health and said legislative protections were an essential component in addressing it.

Not exact matches

The «demand - side» view attributes the unbanked phenomenon to cultural determinants (i.e. the poor may distrust financial institutions or may not have a «culture of saving») or to a lack of financial literacy.

First, it has reinforced the power of television, with its limited views, to act as an adequate determinant of the presentation of religious cultural thought.

American Political Science Association (APSA): The Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.

As they put it: «Bourdieu argued that cultural capital, that is familiarity with the dominant cultural codes in a society, is a key determinant of educational success because it is misperceived by teachers as academic brilliance and rewarded as such.»

The former was widely expanding mostly in the West while the latter, in a non-western cultural context, was shaped primarily by specific geopolitical and cultural determinants, and the circulation of ideas in the realm of Iron Curtain was constantly challenged.

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art's exhibition, Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, on view through December 3, documents Black women's relationship with fashion — the cultural tendency to not simply think of it as a way of dress, but a determinant of a way of life.

Anne Tallentire, much praised for the originality of her work, presents recent projects and related pieces focusing on how the ordering, or disordering, of things can signify everyday social and cultural determinants.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

Dr Marlene Kong, from UNSW's Kirby Institute, told delegates that Aboriginal people were disproportionately affected by social, economic and environmental factors, with some 70 percent of the determinants out of their control, and access a growing issue due to escalating costs of living and time poverty, cultural incompetence and racism.

Research commissioned by the Lowitja Institute in 2015 showed that, despite the myth of little sympathy for offenders among the general public — a situation that is often exploited by politicians to perpetuate punitive policies — citizens are open to the idea of alternatives to incarceration, and to the provision of better services and programs that address the social, cultural and economic determinants of crime.

Cultural, human, and social capital as determinants of corporal punishment: Toward an integrated theoretical model.

For example, direct health benefits such as increasing knowledge and supply of traditional foods, medicines, and promoting exercise, psychosocial determinants such as meeting cultural responsibilities; and environmental benefits such as an increase in biodiversity, soil stabilisation and mitigation of dust storms (a vector of disease).

Queensland Health — Cultural profiles The cultural profiles available on this webpage provide information for health care providers on the communication styles, health, health beliefs and practices, social determinants of health and use of health services of 18 multicultural communities in QueCultural profiles The cultural profiles available on this webpage provide information for health care providers on the communication styles, health, health beliefs and practices, social determinants of health and use of health services of 18 multicultural communities in Quecultural profiles available on this webpage provide information for health care providers on the communication styles, health, health beliefs and practices, social determinants of health and use of health services of 18 multicultural communities in Queensland.

Social, Cultural and Family Practices as Determinants of Narratives and the Self - Image of 11 Women with Histories of Child Sexual Abuse

Instead, his consultations with community members in Inala identified much deeper themes about community strength and complex inter-related and intergenerational social, cultural and environmental determinants of health, including racism, trauma and grief.

A «cycle» of interrelated, inter-generational, social, cultural, and environmental determinants of health

It's time to move away from the deficit model that is implicit in much discussion about the social determinants of health, and instead take a strengths - based cultural determinants approach to improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

A «social and cultural determinants» approach recognises that there are many drivers of ill - health that lie outside the direct responsibility of the health sector and which therefore require a collaborative, inter-sectoral approach.

Spurling told the conference his informants for the project had given authoritative accounts of how social, cultural, and environmental determinants impacted on their lives, which were also consistent with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander definition of health — that is not merely the provision of doctors or absence of disease.

Associate Professor Joseph Keawe'aimoku Kaholokula, Chair of Native Hawaiian Health, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, provided an insight into Hawaiian historical and social determinants of health, and the strong cultural and community connections that can mitigate the harm.

As reported previously at Croakey, Professor Brown is an advocate of taking a strengths - based cultural determinants approach to improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Consistent with the thematic approach to the Articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), cultural determinants include, but are not limited to: