dc.contributor.author |
Ratima, M |
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dc.contributor.author |
Waetford, Cathrine |
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dc.contributor.author |
Wikaire, Erena |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-08-12T06:16:57Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2006-11 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 2006, 34 (3), pp. 153 - 159 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0303-7193 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/29971 |
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dc.description.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 Mäori and non-Mäori, 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. |
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dc.description.uri |
https://pnz.org.nz/journal |
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dc.publisher |
Physiotherapy New Zealand |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://physiotherapy.org.nz/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Cultural competence for physiotherapists: Reducing inequalities in health between Māori and non-Māori |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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pubs.issue |
3 |
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pubs.begin-page |
153 |
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pubs.volume |
34 |
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pubs.author-url |
http://physiotherapy.org.nz/assets/Professional-dev/Journal/2006-November/2006NovWikare.pdf |
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pubs.end-page |
159 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
536016 |
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pubs.org-id |
Liggins Institute |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2016-07-19 |
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