Promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Safety Report

This report focuses on promoting cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in health services. It begins by defining key terms and providing an overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, including their diversity and historical experiences, and the impacts of colonization. The report then explores the historical impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, including health disparities, racism, and discrimination. It reviews strategies for engaging with and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander needs, such as community engagement, education, and resource utilization. Finally, the report discusses cultural safety and effectiveness in health services, including program organization, campaign implementation, and education promotion to improve health outcomes and cultural understanding. The report also includes relevant references to support its findings.

PROMOTE ABORIGINALPROMOTE ABORIGINAL
AND TORRES ISLANDERAND TORRES ISLANDER
STRAIT CULTURALSTRAIT CULTURAL
SAFETYSAFETY

Aim and ObjectivesAim and Objectives
IDENTITY
UNDERSTANDING AND VIEWS ON ABORGINAL AND TORRES
ISLANDER CULTURAL
REFLECTION ON IDENTITY AND UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR
CULTURE
IMPACTS ON ABORIGINAL AND TORRES ISLANDER PEOPLE FROM
HISTORICAL APPROACHES
HOW HEALTH AND SAFETY IS SHARED
CULTURAL SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS IN HEALTH SERVICES

Reflect understanding of aboriginal and Torres strait
islander people
 In an Australia, the word indigenous, aboriginal and Torres strait islander are
capitalised.
 Aboriginal and Torres strait islander are those people within the Australian who
descended from groups that existed in the Australia and surrounding islands prior
to British colonisation.
 In the Australia, there is a unique place of Aboriginal and Torres Straits islander
people as the original inhabitants of the land.

Cont...
 In the 2001, total 410003 people identified themselves as Indigenous under which
366,429 of these were aboriginal.
 26046 were Torres Strait islander and 17528 identified themselves as v both
Aboriginal and Torres strait islander.
 This diversity can hugely affect the service delivery among these cultural people.
At the time of deliver product and services to these two group of people in the
Australia, company have requirement to understand the culture of these group.
 Community service provider need to be aware of and acknowledge this history of
aboriginal and Torres strait islander so that they can fully understand the actual
requirement and needs of their customers in this culture.

Aboriginal and Torres islander cultural
 Aboriginal people enjoy diverse and living cultures. The language, beliefs,
knowledge, material cultures and other unique cultural practices of communities
vary according to geographic location, environment and resources.
 Aboriginal people and Torres Strait islanders have different culture and societies,
their experience of dispossession, oppression and disadvantages.
 Since 1788, Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander cultures have adapted
dramatically to accommodate and introduced.

Important Event in 1948 in Aboriginal and Torres
Strait islander historical Experiences
 In the 1948, the commonwealth citizenship and nationality act for the first time
makes all Australian.
 In this also includes all aboriginal people, Australian citizens. However, at the state
level they still suffer legal discrimination.
 The newly formed united natons adopted to the universal declaration of human
rights.

Research the historical impacts on aboriginal and
Torres strait islander communities
 Aboriginal and Torres strait islander refers to persons of aboriginal and Torres
strait islander descents who identify as aboriginal and Torres strait islander.
 There are various Aboriginal and Torres strait islander groups and hundreds of
languages.
 After colonisation, the population decreased by 1920 and there were only around
60000 Aboriginal and Torres strait islander people.

Cont..
 In 2011 more than one in three aboriginal and Torres strait islander people were
under 15 years as compared with one fifth of non indigenous Australians.
 In the 2011, 11% of Aboriginal and Torres strait islander people spoke an
indigenous language at home.
 In the 2010 to 2012 the average life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres strait
islander was approximately ten year that is less than as compared to the non
indigenous Australians.

Cont..
 There are major reasons of death included heart diseases, diabetes, respiratory
diseases and cancer.
 As compare to the non indigenous Australian, Aboriginal and Torres strait islander
people aged between 15 and 64 years were not employed in 2012-2013.
 It has been also found that Aboriginal and Torres strait islander women are
involved in the physical viloance from last 12 months.
 It has been also found that between 2005 to 2007 and 2010-12, life expectancy for
aboriginal and Torres strait islander men increased by 1.6 year and by 0.6 years for
women.

Explore specific impacts on aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people from historical approaches
 There are various kinds of issues and circumstances that have long termed impacts
on Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander. Following are implication of issues on the
aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
 The impact of European Settlement
 The impact on health and Disease
 The impact of racism and discrimination

Review strategies used to support and engage with
aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Needs
 For improve the community services and engage with aboriginal and Torres Straits
islander requirement, following strategies will support-
 Communicate about voluntary opportunities-This is the best strategy for engage
and support with aboriginal and Torres Strait islander need by which corporation
can easily increase engagement with aboriginal and Torres strait islanders
 Engage community member in learning about community issues-This is another
significant strategy to improve support and engage with aboriginal and Torres
Straits islander. Member can identify actual issues and problem with aboriginal
and Torres Straits islander and find out solution of their requirement.

Cont..
 Identify and utilise resources to promote partnerships- This strategy helps to the
aboriginal people in fulfilling their needs and requirement. Corporation should
identify resources and equipment through which requirement can easily identify.
 Education- Education is the best strategy to understand the culture and their
significance of indigenous people. Thus, for improve the support and engage with
aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Needs organisation should improve
education.