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A Qualitative Exploration of Indigenous Patients' Experiences of Racism and Perspectives on Improving Cultural Safety within Health Care

2023

Pilarinos, A., Field, S., Vasarhelyi, K., Hall, D., Fox, D., Price, R., Bonshor, L., & Bingham, B.

Canadian Medical Association

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This journal article reports on findings from a study exploring Indigenous patients' experiences with racism and how cultural safety can be improved within health care, utilizing a Two-Eyed Seeing approach. Key themes focused on the patients' experiences of racism and impacts on health outcomes and trust in the health care system; devaluation of traditional medicine and Indigenous perspectives on health; and how to improve trust in health care through Indigenous services, supports, and cultural safety education.

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A Qualitative Exploration of Indigenous Patients' Experiences of Racism and Perspectives on Improving Cultural Safety within Health Care.

Pilarinos, A., Field, S., Vasarhelyi, K., Hall, D., Fox, D., Price, R., Bonshor, L., & Bingham, B. (2023). A qualitative exploration of Indigenous patients' experiences of racism and perspectives on improving cultural safety within health care. Canadian Medical Asssociation Journal Open, 11(3), E404-E410.