Talk:Threshold Concepts

Threshold Concepts

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THRESHOLD CONCEPTS FOR DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL & INDIGENOUS HEALTH COMPETENCE

1. Ideas about health and wellbeing are largely shaped by one’s cultural influences. What we regard as normal, sensible or intuitive may vary a lot between different cultures.
2. Effective healthcare professionals need to show respect for different cultural perspectives while maintaining high professional standards of quality and safety.
3. The current health and wellbeing some cultural groups, including Indigenous Australians, are still profoundly affected by recent and more distant histories. This includes colonialism, persecution by government representatives, deprivation of cultural identity expression, forced disconnection from country and community.
4. Access to primary health care is a human right that is sometimes obstructed by institutional and other factors such as racism and rigid adherence to culturally exclusive practices.
5. Health professional responsibilities include attending to human rights, community wellbeing and development as well as individual needs and other social determinants of health.
6. Narrow Western biomedical models of health and healthcare are unlikely to provide effective patient-centred care for many cultures. There is a need for more holistic models that recognise the importance of spiritual, emotional and cultural factors.
7. The skills and knowledge needed for intercultural health care have a large overlap with generally effective care within one’s own cultural group(s). Improving intercultural health care competencies will benefit all cultural groups.