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- Title: Cultural Competence for Physiotherapists: Reducing Inequalities in Health Between Maori and Non-Maori.
- Author : New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 229 KB
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ABSTRACT The recently implemented Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act (HPCA Act) has required registration authorities to develop standards for competence that must be met by practitioners. For the physiotherapy profession, the standards provide an opportunity for strengthening understandings and enhancing clarity as to the range of cultural competencies required for safe and effective practice. The Standards potentially provide direction for practical measures that can be taken in everyday practice settings to address ethnic inequalities in health, give meaning to the Treaty of Waitangi, strengthen workforce quality, and address ethnicity as a determinant of health. The latter refers to the extent to which ethnicity has an independent effect on health status due to factors, like racism, impacting differentially across ethnic groups. In order for the potential of the cultural competence standards for physiotherapy to be met it is important that there is a clear understanding among physiotherapists in private and public settings of the meaning, relevance, and value of cultural competence and how to implement it in practice. This paper discusses those issues with reference to addressing inequalities in health between Maori and non-Maori, and draws on the Guidelines for Cultural Competence in Physiotherapy Education and Practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand in identifying a Framework for the implementation of cultural competence in the physiotherapy profession. The Framework is of relevance not only to individual physiotherapists, but also to physiotherapy bodies that have responsibilities for ensuring the cultural competence of the profession. Ratima M, Waetford C, Wikaire E (2006): Cultural competence of physiotherapists: reducing inequalities in health between maori and non-Maori. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy 34(3): 153-159.
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