Health care barriers, racism, and intersectionality in Australia

More than culture: structural racism, intersectionality theory, and immigrant health.

Explanations for immigrant health outcomes often invoke culture through the use of the concept of acculturation. The over reliance on cultural explanations for immigrant health outcomes has been the topic of growing debate, with the critics' main concern being that such explanations obscure the impact of structural factors on immigrant health disparities. In this paper, we highlight the shortco...

Constructing Racism in Australia

There is a dearth of empirical evidence on the extent of racist attitudes, broadly defined, in Australia. A telephone survey of 5056 residents in Queensland and NSW examined attitudes to cultural difference, perceptions of the extent of racism, tolerance of specific groups, ideology of nation, perceptions of Anglo-Celtic cultural privilege, and belief in racialism, racial separatism and racial ...

Reducing racism in Aboriginal health care in Australia: where does cultural education fit?

OBJECTIVE This paper discusses whether educating health professionals and undergraduate students in culturally respectful health service delivery is effective in reducing racism, improving practice and lessening the disparities in health care between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. APPROACH The paper supports the concept of race as a social construction that is discursively produce...

Intersectionality, Inequality and Maternal Health

Barriers to access to health care for newly resettled sub-Saharan refugees in Australia.

OBJECTIVE To determine barriers that affect access to health care for refugees from sub-Saharan Africa resettled in Sydney. DESIGN Descriptive epidemiological study and survey. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Parents of newly resettled refugee children seen at a tertiary hospital paediatric clinic between 10 June 2005 and 19 May 2006. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Socioeconomic indicators, health seekin...