Challenging discrimination
Everyone working in health actively challenges discrimination and promotes a valued place and ōritetanga for tāngata whai ora and whānau.
Expected outcome
People working in health are strong advocates for the elimination of discrimination relating to addiction, mental health challenges, racism, and all other forms of discrimination.
Essential | Enhanced | Leadership |
|---|---|---|
Human rights | ||
Understands that human rights provide the foundation for challenging discrimination
| Supports others to apply an understanding of human rights as the foundation for challenging discrimination | Provides leadership to ensure services promote, protect, and ensure the full and equal human rights and freedoms, and full participation of all tāngata whai ora and whānau |
Addiction and mental health-related discrimination | ||
Demonstrates understanding of the prevalence and impact of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination on tāngata whai ora, whānau, services, and communities Works to develop awareness of own beliefs about addiction and mental health that may lead to discriminatory behaviour Challenges addiction and mental health-related discrimination
| Addiction and mental health- related discrimination Demonstrates understanding of the prevalence and impact of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination on tāngata whai ora, whānau, services, and communities Works to develop awareness of own beliefs about addiction and mental health that may lead to discriminatory behaviour Challenges addiction and mental health-related discrimination
| Fosters an organisational culture that is non-discriminatory in relation to addiction and mental health challenges Leads services that support tāngata whai ora, whānau, communities, kaimahi, and volunteers to eliminate prejudice and discrimination related to addiction and mental health challenges Promotes careers in addiction and mental health Promotes organisational policies and procedures that are responsive to CPSLE roles (eg processes for recruitment into CPSLE roles are accessible for potential candidates; policies support and do not disadvantage CPSLE kaimahi) |
Self-stigma and associative stigma | ||
Demonstrates awareness of the impacts of self-stigma and associative stigma (eg a barrier to seeking support, a factor in social isolation)
| Supports tāngata whai ora and whānau to challenge and manage the impacts of self-stigma and associative stigma (eg shares evidence-based tools and strategies) | Ensures kaimahi are supported to develop skills in challenging and addressing the impacts of self-stigma and associative stigma |
Inequity and intersectionality | ||
Demonstrates awareness that unconscious bias, prejudice, and discrimination contribute to health inequity Works to understand people’s experiences of intersectionality Works to develop and deepen awareness of own beliefs that may be racist or discriminatory Challenges attitudes and behaviours (own and others) that may support racism and other forms of discrimination
| Considers and accounts for social and cultural determinants that impact wellbeing Supports others to understand how intersectional stigma and discrimination contribute to and perpetuate health inequity Works to integrate values, concepts, and practices to eliminate racism, sexism, ageism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and all forms of discrimination Demonstrates understanding of the impacts of structural stigma and racism Advocates for measures to recognise and address structural stigma and racism (eg recognises that sometimes concepts derived from a Western perspective can be viewed as racist or irrelevant by Māori and others from non-Western cultures)
| Leads meaningful engagement with communities known to experience health inequity and disadvantage to understand their aspirations, worldviews, and requirements Promotes use of quality, research, and evaluation approaches that are informed by an equity perspective (eg challenges policy and procedures that support mono-cultural views and views that people have a singular identity) |
Language | ||
Demonstrates understanding of the impact of discriminatory language Demonstrates understanding that affirming or inclusive language positively impacts wellbeing Uses language that promotes wellbeing (eg promotes acceptance, respect, hope; conveys uniqueness in relation to people, their qualities, histories, and circumstances) Works to keep up to date with language that is acceptable to tāngata whai ora and whānau Checks on acceptability of language with tāngata whai ora Respects people’s right to label themselves (eg disabled person, addict in recovery)
| Supports others to use language that promotes wellbeing | Ensures organisational policies, processes, and documentation use language that is affirmative, strengths-based, inclusive, and non-discriminatory |