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Addressing Health Inequities

You are required to consider addressing health inequities as part of your annual CPD.
Good medical practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia states:

 “There are significant disparities in the health status of different groups in the Australian community. These disparities result from social, economic, historic, geographic and other factors. In particular, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples bear the burden of gross social and health inequity.

Good medical practice involves using your expertise and influence to identify and address healthcare inequity and protect and advance the health and wellbeing of individual patients, communities and populations.”

Example activities:
ADDRESSING HEALTH INEQUITITES

Title Description Educational Activity Reviewing Performance Measuring Outcomes
Characteristics and outcomes of adults admitted to New Zealand ICUs following a cardiac arrest by ethnicity: a brief report - ScienceDirect Critical Care & Resuscitation, journal article ✓    
Clinical outcomes of Indigenous Australians and New Zealand Māori with metabolic acidosis and acidaemia - ScienceDirect Critical Care & Resuscitation, journal article ✓    
Accessibility of the Australian population to an ICU, and of ICUs to each other - ScienceDirect Critical Care & Resuscitation, journal article ✓    
Drug Related Admissions to Intensive Care: The Role of Illicit Drugs and Self Poisoning - ScienceDirect Critical Care & Resuscitation, journal article ✓    
IC-17-Statement-on-the-Health-of-People-Seeking-Asylum.pdf

CICM Professional document

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Review of critical incident of a patient who is from the CALD community Self-directed or group     ✓
Case review and interpretation of findings where a patient is from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) community Case review     ✓
Performing the role as assess for WBAs and ITAs where the patient is CALD Peer review of performance   ✓  
Include whether the patient is from a CALD community on M&M meeting templates for discussion Mortality and Morbidity meeting     ✓
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Acknowledgement of Country

CICM acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Custodians of the lands across Australia on which our members live and work, and to their Elders, past, present and future. We pay respect to the Wurundjeri Peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which CICM’s office stands.

CICM acknowledges Māori as tangata whenua and Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) partners in Aotearoa New Zealand.