‘We’re racially profiled as drunk Indians’ – experiences of Indigenous rural British Columbians accessing health care
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The present study examines the experiences of anti-Indigenous racism derived from the data collected across rural British Columbia (BC) through the Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia's Rural Site Visits Project. This study aims to demonstrate how and where people are being treated inequitably in the healthcare system and to highlight racism and its negative impact on patient care. METHODS: We used an action-oriented methodology and incorporated Indigenous methods into the analysis. Participants and focus groups were identified using Boelen's Partnership Pentagon Model, and the data were collected using an appreciative inquiry approach. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. RESULTS: The various forms of racism appearing in health care were identified together with their impacts on patient care. Primary care providers appeared unaware of the extent of discrimination and barriers to care affecting Indigenous community members, suggesting a disconnect between provider perception and patient experience. Finally, the steps towards culturally safe health care were proposed. CONCLUSIONS: Anti-Indigenous racism exists and adversely impacts the care Indigenous peoples receive throughout rural BC. Our study invites healthcare providers to reflect upon their practice and become more culturally aware and humble to improve Indigenous peoples' access to care, health outcomes and experiences. INTRODUCTION: Notre article examine les expériences de racisme anti-autochtone tirées des données recueillies dans les zones rurales de la Colombie-Britannique dans le cadre du Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia's Rural Site Visits Project (projet de visites des sites ruraux). Ce document vise à démontrer comment et où les personnes sont traitées de manière inéquitable dans le système de santé et à mettre en évidence le racisme et son impact négatif sur les soins aux patients. MTHODES: Nous avons utilisé une méthodologie orientée vers l'action et intégré des méthodes autochtones dans l'analyse. Les participants et les groupes de discussion ont été identifiés à l'aide du modèle Pentagone du partenariat de Boelen et les données ont été recueillies à l'aide d'une approche d'enquête appréciative. Les données ont été analysées à l'aide d'une analyse thématique. RSULTATS: Les différentes formes de racisme apparaissant dans les soins de santé ont été identifiées, ainsi que leur impact sur les soins aux patients. Les prestataires de soins primaires ne semblaient pas conscients de l'ampleur de la discrimination et des obstacles aux soins qui affectaient les membres de la communauté autochtone, ce qui suggère un décalage entre la perception du prestataire et l'expérience du patient. Enfin, les étapes des soins de santé culturellement sûrs sont proposés. CONCLUSIONS: Le racisme anti-autochtone existe et a un impact négatif sur les soins que reçoivent les populations autochtones dans les zones rurales de la Colombie-Britannique. Notre article invite les prestataires de soins de santé à réfléchir à leur pratique et à devenir plus conscients de la culture et plus humbles afin d'améliorer l'accès aux soins, les résultats en matière de santé et les expériences des populations autochtones.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".