health condition of the aboriginals as well as the Torres Strait islander people. For this particular research paper Sydney South West has been taken under consideration for the proper evaluation of the desired health care services offered to the respective people living there. Though some improvements have been done in some areas but the development is slow and inconsistent. The gap has not reduced and this was remaining wider between the Torres Strait islanders and the aboriginals and some other Australians’
Medicine is used in many different forms all around the world. Aboriginal traditional medicine and healing focuses on the balance between spiritual, mental, emotional and physical well-being (Lilley, Harrington, & Snyder, 2011; Robbins & Dewar, 2011). It is considered a holistic approach as it intertwines many different aspects of health (Robbins & Dewar, 2011). The community plays a vital role in the healing process and is highly valued (Shaw, 2014). Western medicine is based on dividing body and
Violence is a worldwide issue and many cultures face tremendous problems because of the effects it can cause. Violence is a term used to explain a type of harm done onto someone or a group of people and can be in many forms such as sexual, emotional, physical, etc. When looking at violence in a cultural perspective and narrowing in on Canada it is known that the Aboriginals face a great deal of violence, both in the past as well as today. Treatment of Aboriginal peoples in Canada has never been completely
Introduction This report identifies the challenges faced by the modern health professional in understanding the complexities of providing culturally competent Aboriginal health and rehabilitation care within the Australian primary health care system. Understanding the true complexity of the past impacts of colonialism, the political process and community prejudice effects on the Indigenous health status cannot truly be understood by the western world and health care professionals. This report however
3.2 The Pepsi commercial Jack Doyle, on his website on the history of popular culture (PopHistoryDig.com) tellingly exposes that Madonna’s first real controversy, the video clip ‘Like a Prayer’ that brought her global fame, was part of a television commercial campaign. As he sums it up, in the late 1980s, the two major soft drinks companies, Coca-Cola and Pepsi were engaged in a competition to reach millions of customers in soft-drink consuming. They thought it is an effective way to promote soft-drink
number of immigrants move to Taiwan due to marriage. This year, the number has reached to five hundred thousand people. Taiwan is an extremely homogeneous country, with ninety eight percent of ethnically Han Chinese and two percent of Taiwanese aboriginals. The boost of immigrants has quite significantly changed the population composition of the country. Since the 1970s, immigrants have grown to approximately five hundred thousand people, over numbering the largest non-Chinese group. With more immigrant
that “our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think” (Whorf 21). Deutscher who is an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester revisits Whorf’s research and offers useful insights by providing current research on the subject. The article explores linguistic research from various standpoints including gender, time, color perception, and spatial perception. Deutscher’s paper points out the inconsistencies in Whorf’s claims and hypothesizes that language merely influences the
revitalization effort of Maori and reconsider how they treat their respective indigenous languages. Maori revitalization was in a sense, more successful than some of the other indigenous language revitalization because the government greatly valued the culture and its heritage and was positively involved in the promotion and the encouragement of the language use. This puts a very positive image to the language and ordinary people will get to see and hear the language in their daily lives. Therefore, letting
Chapter One introduced the research problem relating to the utilisation of ICTs in Ekurhuleni public libraries. This chapter reviews literature relevant to the study. It sought to give a deeper understanding of what ICTs facilities are used in public libraries, by whom are such facilities used as well as the reasons for the usage of such facilities. In this chapter, various literature related to the study is reviewed in order to put the study in its proper context, by identifying and analysing various