Cultural safety: interculturality and health in a globalized setting
Section: Ethics and Society
How to quote
Rubio Rico L. Seguridad cultural: la interculturalidad y la salud en un entorno globalizado.
Authors
Lourdes Rubio Rico
Position
Enfermera. Licenciada en Humanidades. Departamento de Enfermería. Universidad Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona.
Contact address
Departament d’Infermeria. Universidad Rovira i Virgili. Campus Catalunya. Avda. Catalunya, 35. 43002 Tarragona.
Contact email: lourdes.rubio@urv.cat
Abstract
This study makes a reflection on the importance of given sufficient value to the interculturality applied to health in the global reality of the XXI century and proposes a new way of caring for and provide for such health diversity: cultural safety. The concept is rooted in the philosophical basis that supports it and is proposed as a useful tool to think about interculturality and health in a globalised setting. Cultural safety understands research and nursing practice as a “know how” that goes beyond the strict knowledge of cultural customs of collective groups, identifying and acting upon the historical, social, cultural, political and economic causes of inequality in health. Moreover, it also makes a reflection on the multiple dimensions in which cultural diversity is manifested. The exchange, cultural relations among cultures and the way people treat each other should take place in levelled conditions of equality and justice. The reflection on the exercise of power in health management, the recognition of prejudice towards indifference, and the willingness to give voice to those that have not had the privilege of being heard before to value their duties and knowledge and listen to their needs, opens a new perspective in intercultural research that leaves behind the essentialist consideration of cultures, that recognises a new space for the development of identity and which goes beyond the purely cultural fact to reach further into social responsibility and in the repair of offences and personal damage.
Keywords:
Cultural safety; feminism; interculturality; social justice
Versión en Español
Título:
Seguridad cultural: la interculturalidad y la salud en un entorno globalizado
