Intersecting Inequalities:
Immigrant Women of Colour, Violence & Health Care
APPENDIX I: ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN QUESTIONS
  1. On the basis of your experience, are women likely to tell their doctors (GPs) about the abuse they are experiencing?
  2. What kinds of responses have they encountered? Is there any difference whether it's a male or female doctor?
  3. Is the situation any different for immigrant women or Aboriginal women? Is it better when the doctor is from their own ethnic or language group?
  4. Have you done any hospital accompaniments?
  5. What kinds of responses did you see in terms of how the women were treated by nurses? By emergency physicians?
  6. On the basis of your experience, how do specialists, alternative health care personnel, public nurses, physiotherapists, or chiropractors respond to woman abuse? Are some more responsive than others? Can you give us any examples?
  7. Was the response any different for immigrant women or Aboriginal women?
  8. Are you aware of any policies governing how the health sector should respond to women survivors of abuse?
  9. Are you aware of how any laws might impact on the delivery of health care services to immigrant & refugee women, and to Aboriginal women?
  10. Is documentation / record keeping by doctors or nurses an issue for women survivors seeking these services?
  11. Does the presence of children influence women's decision to disclose abuse to health care personnel? Can you tell us how?
  12. What would you suggest is an effective way of communicating information to immigrant and refugee women about health care issues related to violence? [e.g. putting pamphlets or material in temples, grocery stores, schools, ethnic media, local media, etc.; have public nurses conduct outreach in these communities?]
  13. Do you have any views on how the health care system should respond to women - from doctors, nurses to emergency department staff?
  14. Would you describe your area as rural or urban? Do you think there are any differences in rural versus urban areas regarding how the health care system responds to women survivors of violence? To immigrant & refugee women? To Aboriginal women?

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