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Cultural Safety in Australian Healthcare

   

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Running head: CULTURAL SAFETY IN AUSTRALIAN HEALTHCARE Cultural Safety in Australian HealthcareName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note

1CULTURAL SAFETY IN AUSTRALIAN HEALTHCARERole of Australian media in influencing the health care of the Australian multiculturalcommunity.IntroductionAustralia is a multicultural society. Due to the cultural adversity among the Australians,disparities lies between the accessibility of the Australian health care. Most of the culturaldifferences is reflected between the non indigenous and indigenous population of Australia.Thehealth status of the aboriginal Australian were always found to be in a critical state, due to somesocial determinants of health like, racism, lack of health equity, lack of proper education andseveral more (Brascoupe et al., 2009). Apart from the non indigenous population, Australia isdiversified by other group of people coming from countries all over the world. There are severallinguistically diverse group of Australian population are also there. They face with severalcultural, structural and service related barriers to access equal care (Brascoupe et al., 2009). In order to mitigate the problems faced by the diverse population of Australia and toincrease the public awareness regarding the health care issues in Australia, Medias like newsreleases, videos plays a huge role (McPhail-Bell, 2015). There are several media studies thatdepicts that Maori health is openly described in the deficit model, further there are also negativemedia portrayals that perpetuates the racist stigma among the Australian population. There arealso several media items that focus on the role of cultural safety in Australian health care(McPhail-Bell, 2015).This paper focuses on two media releases that will focus on the way it is influencing thehealth care of Australia.

2CULTURAL SAFETY IN AUSTRALIAN HEALTHCAREDiscussionRole and Power of Australian mediaPublic health had always been a concern for the governments of the world, both in thedeveloped and the undeveloped countries. Public health is profoundly affected by theglobalization of health. With the increasing global challenges the epidemiological pattern ofmany diseases are also changing drastically. It has been reported that the Australian populationhas a high prevalence of many diseases like obesity and cardiac diseases (Stoneham, Goodman& Daube, 2014). It should be noted that the Australian population is diverse and consists ofpeople all over the world. Due to the widely diversified nature of the Australian population, thereare lots of problems faced by the health ministry of Australia. Among the different strategiestaken up for overcoming the health issue and ensuring cultural safety in health care, the mediaare widely used by the government, international agencies and the non profitable organizations todisseminate information to the people and to bring them together for reaching a state ofcomprehensive physical, social and emotional well being (Stoneham, Goodman & Daube, 2014).Health is always impacted by social and political factors as well. It is the media that increases thepublic awareness regarding the social and the political impacts (Durey, 2010). Aboriginal healthand cultural safety associated to the aboriginal health had always been a discussed topic inAustralian health care. According to the government, continuous reforms are going on toimprove the health status of this people and to understand their grievances. But as per theresearches and field studies, the gap still exists in the aboriginal healthcare (Rigby et al., 2011).The different media releases helps to disseminate the news to the rest of the population. It isalready known from that the Aboriginals are faced with racism in most of the aspects of their lifethat had kept them aloof from the indigenous population (Durey, 2010). The Australian media

3CULTURAL SAFETY IN AUSTRALIAN HEALTHCAREhelps the Public to know the actual history of the aboriginals and the other linguisticallydiversified groups. The Australian media helps to expose the issues to the public and in a wayforces the government authorities to take actions to mitigate the health issues in Australianpopulation.Role of media in association to cultural safety in Australian healthcareCultural safety can be defined as provision of an environment associated with health carethat is safe for all cultures of people. It is deals with several shared factors like self-esteem,shared importance, shared level of understanding and experience of working, living and learningtogether in complete dignity. A cultural safety among the Aboriginal s needed to strengthen theirculture (Stoneham, Goodman & Daube, 2014). It can be known from the studies that the initialviews of the people regarding the Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islanders were judgmentalwithout even knowing or questioning whether the source of information was true or false. TheAustralian media have helped to break the stereotypical views of the Australians regarding theAboriginals. The Australian print media is extremely concentrated and only have 3 media ownersand of them popular ones are Fairfax Media News Limited and APN News and Media. Itcomprises of 98% (approx) of the media sector. These two media giant, together comprise of atleast 88% of the Australian print media assets (Stoneham, Goodman & Daube, 2014). The Australian media has also increased awareness in the non indigenous health carepopulation and the caregivers. It has helped in building a conducive environment for theaboriginals and the CALD people (Stoneham, Goodman & Daube, 2014). It is required for theprofessionals in health care to have an acceptance to all types of cultures. Acceptance todiversified culture will be helpful in creating the patient- therapist interpersonal relationships that

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