Category: Cultural Determinants
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Taking migrant women’s health context into account
Zohra Lassi, Negin Mirzaei Damabi, Abela Mahimbo Since 1945, Australia has welcomed close to a million refugees. However, when a pregnant refugee woman walks into a hospital, her experience rarely leaves a trace in our health records. Her name might appear on a patient chart, but her migration background, language,…
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Cultural wellbeing linked to better health outcomes for First Nations and CALD populations
Dr Joe Thomas Culture is the sum of the lived experience of a group of people. It includes the artefacts of today’s life, collective expressions of norms and values, shared memories, belief systems and knowledge. Culture plays a critical role in health and wellbeing and is transferred intergenerationally. Aboriginal and…