Traditional wellness integration, cultural safety and indigenization strategies for health and wellness services
department or school: Health and Social Development, Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Nursing, School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Werstuik, Saige M.
issued: 2024-04-19T16:59:48Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This Master’s thesis aims to determine factors that influence successful traditional wellness integration in health programming, and addresses ways to strengthen Indigenous peoples access to traditional wellness practices within the current healthcare system. According to recent data, Indigenous populations are less likely to receive adequate health care due to providers’ lack of cultural safety and awareness. Integrating traditional wellness practices within healthcare not only ensures cultural safety but also eliminates these existing inadequacies. The thesis will address this issue by addressing the research question: What are the factors that influence appropriate and Indigenized integration of traditional wellness in a culturally safe way? In addition, the objectives include 1) identifying barriers to successful integration that traditional wellness practitioners and Indigenous peoples face, 2) gathering lived experiences that highlight the strengths of current integration strategies, and 3) leveraging local Indigenous knowledges to ensure cultural safety and enhance integration for traditional wellness. The research outlined in this thesis has used an Indigenous methodology as guided by Enowkinwixw principles as an analogy to ensure Indigenized methods, such as community engagement, story work, and sharing circles. The aim of this research is to contribute to fulfilling the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Call to Action #22 and Article 24 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The thesis achieved these goals by outlining culturally safe and accessible traditional wellness integration strategies which have been developed for, by, and with a local Indigenous community. These findings will contribute to ensuring the continued and successful integration of traditional wellness practitioners into health and wellness programs.
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note: TRADITIONAL WELLNESS INTEGRATION, CULTURAL SAFETY AND INDIGENIZATION STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS SERVICES by Saige M. Werstuik B.A., The University of British Columbia, 2021 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) (Community Engagement, Social Change and Equity) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) April 2024 © Saige M. Werstuik, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: Traditional Wellness Integration, Cultural Safety and Indigenization Strategies for Health and Wellness Services submitted by Saige M. Werstuik in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Dr. Laura L. Struik, Faculty of Health and Social Development Supervisor Dr. Kimberly R. Huyser, University of British Columbia (Vancouver) Co-Supervisor Dr. James Coble, Okanagan College Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Gabrielle Legault, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Peter Hutchinson, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University Examiner iii Abstract This Master’s thesis aims to determine factors that influence successful traditional wellness integration in health programming, and addresses ways to strengthen Indigenous peoples access to traditional wellness practices within the current healthcare system. According to recent data, Indigenous populations are less likely to receive adequate health care due to providers’ lack of cultural safety and awareness. Integrating traditional wellness practices within healthcare not only ensures cultural safety but also eliminates these existing inadequacies. The thesis will address this issue by addressing the research question: What are the factors that influence appropriate and Indigenized integration of traditional wellness in a c…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0441438
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Struik, Laura
contributor: Huyser, Kimberly Rose
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87890