Cultural Safety in Health Care

Running head: CULTURAL SAFETY IN HEALTH CARE
CULTURAL SAFETY IN HEALTH CARE
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Part A:
Position Statement:
There are many organisation working in the continent of the Australia which are working for
the culturally competent effective health communication, health service and health literacy
among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people. Danila Dilba Health Service is
among one of them. The vision and goal of this organisation is to provide well- being, health,
and quality of life among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people which is equal to
the non- aboriginal Australians. Danila Dilba Health Service provides primary health care
services, community services, and program among the Biluru community of the Yilli Rreung
Region based on the principles of access, equity, community self- determination,
collaboration, and empowerment (Ddhs.org.au, 2019). Danila Dilba Health Service is one and
only community health service which is controlled by the aboriginal community in the region
of the Darwin, Australia. An independent study by the Deloitte has shown that the Danila
Dilba Health Service provides benefits of 4.18 Australian dollar for each and every dollar
invested in this organisation (Ddhs.org.au, 2019). It has also been reported that, presently,
Danila Dilba Health Service provides improved health services among the 80 per cent of the
Aboriginal community residing in the Greater Darwin Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
populace. Presently, Danila Dilba Health Service has been involved in a five year (2017 –
2022) strategic plan with a theme of ‘Keeping well, getting stronger’ (Ddhs.org.au, 2019).
This particular achievement shows that the Danila Dilba Health Service is growing day by
day with an aim towards the provision of best practice among the aboriginal community as
well respecting the culture and practice of Aboriginal community.

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Part B:
Introduction:
Cultural Safety is being found to be acceptable to the difference where possessing the
ability of analysing educational discrimination, power imbalances, colonisation and
relationships with the colonizers. Cultural safety is mainly about the idea about providing a
quality health care service which is found to fit in with the accustomed cultural standards and
standards of the public or the people retrieving the service, which may fluctuate from one’s
personal culture or that of the dominant philosophy (Blanchet Garneau, Farrar, Fan & Kulig,
2018). The impression of Cultural safety contemplates the social as well as the historical
backgrounds of an individual’s health and the health care injustices and it is found not to be
absorbed on the sympathetic regarding the Indigenous culture (Caxaj, Schill & Janke, 2018).
Many of the folks come under the San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety training program
supposing that they would learn regarding the formal cultural rituals and the observes of the
Indigenous individuals since the fact that some might have been trailed to consider that it is
the main fact to work with those communities or individuals who are socially dissimilar from
everyone (Greenwood, de Leeuw & Lindsay, 2018). San’yas idea are often startled to
understand that the cultural safety method to provided that care is about paying courtesy to
the health care discriminations, such as establishment (Brooks-Cleator, Phillipps & Giles,
2018).
Discussion:
In the region of Australia, the present health security and the excellence standards are
found to be insufficient in order to safeguard culturally safe health maintenance for the
Indigenous in order to accomplish best health care conclusions (Greenwood, de Leeuw &