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The research described in this chapter offers a promising example of how health promotion research can contribute to meaningfully transforming health services and promoting culturally safe healthcare, through respectful, equitable and reciprocal partnerships with Indigenous communities. The objective of this research is to co-develop, based on a Two-Eyed Seeing approach, a new intervention model to ensure cultural safety for Atikamekw patients in the health system of the province of Québec (Canada). The project builds on the premise that for Indigenous needs, rights and identities to be fully taken into consideration in Western-based healthcare, we need research approaches that support the decolonization of Western science. In keeping with this premise, this research has been developed in full partnership with Indigenous partners on the basis of a Two-Eyed Seeing approach, with the aims of defending the political, moral and ethical principles that fight oppression and of repositioning Indigenous peoples’ unique knowledge, beliefs and values within research and the various social institutions of society. One of the major contributions of this research is to operationalize – and thereby inform the evolution of – the concepts of cultural safety and the Two-Eyed Seeing approach, which currently lack coherent application guidelines in the healthcare system.
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Tremblay, MC., Echaquan, S. (2022). Fostering Cultural Safety in Health Care Through a Decolonizing Approach to Research with, for and by Indigenous Communities. In: Potvin, L., Jourdan, D. (eds) Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97212-7_9
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