Primary Health Care and Indigenous Health Quiz

The principles of PHC include accessibility to preventative, curative, rehabilitative, and supportive/palliative health services, public participation in decision-making, health promotion, appropriate technology, intersectoral collaboration, and education on health issues, immunization, promotion of food supply, and maternal and child health care.

The aim of health promotion is to empower people to improve their health, focusing on social and environmental interventions.

Intersectoral collaboration recognizes the impact of economic and social policies on health and involves sectors like education and transportation.

The Population Health Promotion Model addresses what actions to take and with whom to act, considering concepts like structural violence and anti-racism.

Structural violence, oppression, and colonialism impact healthcare systems and are related to social, economic, and political structures.

Indigenous health is influenced by federal and provincial policies, treaties, and historical attempts at assimilation and eradication.

Engaging with humility in nursing practice involves cultural humility, cultural safety, and reflection on personal bias, power, and privilege.

Cultural safety in healthcare requires accountability and progress toward achieving health equity, as defined by patients and their communities.

Cultural humility involves being open to the cultures of other individuals and communities, fostering communication and knowledge sharing.

Primary Health Care is essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford. The five principles of Primary Health Care are: equity, community participation, intersectoral collaboration, appropriate technology, and a focus on prevention and health promotion.

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is a document that came out of the first international conference on health promotion, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1986. It defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It involves the population as a whole in the context of their everyday lives, rather than focusing on individuals.

The Population Health Promotion Model emphasizes the social determinants of health and focuses on the broader factors that influence health, such as socioeconomic status, education, and the physical environment. It aims to improve the health of entire populations, rather than just individuals, by addressing these underlying determinants.

Structural violence refers to the ways in which social structures and institutions harm or otherwise disadvantage individuals. In Indigenous Health, structural violence can manifest through historical and ongoing systemic inequalities and discrimination. Engagement with humility involves recognizing and addressing these power imbalances, centering Indigenous voices and perspectives, and working collaboratively to create solutions that are respectful and empowering.

Reflexivity in nursing practice refers to the ability to understand and question one's own contexts, attitudes, values, beliefs, assumptions, and experiences of advantage and disadvantage that have shaped the way one understands the world and in relation to others. It involves critically examining personal and cultural history and contexts that influence nursing practice.

Reflection in nursing practice is used to examine interpretations of events, one's role, and the role of others. It is a valuable tool for examining nursing practice for strengths and areas of improvement.

Simon Gull experienced symptoms of feeling unwell with nausea, always being thirsty, increased fatigue, and frequently having to urinate. The triage nurse initially interpreted his symptoms as alcohol intoxication, assuming that Mr. Gull was intoxicated because he is Indigenous.

Simon Gull was diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis. The condition was discovered when another nurse checked on him and found him unresponsive, leading to blood work being ordered, which indicated the diagnosis.

According to UNDRIP, Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination, which guarantees the right to freely determine political condition and the right to freely pursue their form of economic, social, and cultural development.

This phrase represents a holistic approach to acknowledging and addressing the specific needs and rights of different Indigenous groups, including their land, location, and determinants of health.

In the context of nursing, the concept of self-determination relates to respecting and supporting Indigenous peoples' rights to freely determine their political condition and pursue their form of economic, social, and cultural development in their healthcare and wellness practices.

The book 'Métis Rising; Living Our Present through the Power of Our Past' edited by Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand explores the journey of discovery of a Métis woman and the power of Métis history and culture in shaping their present.