Now in its third edition, this core textbook offers a comprehensive framework for creating a culturally safe environment and enhancing health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Through case studies, discussions, reflections and critiques of health issues in Australia today, Health Care and Indigenous Australians offers a starting point for learning about cultural safety in an Indigenous health context, and is essential for students, academics and practitioners alike. This is key reading for anyone taking courses on Indigenous health modules in nursing, midwifery and health related courses at undergraduate or postgraduate level, as well practitioners and academics<.

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Health Care and Indigenous Australians
Cultural safety in practice
- 293 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Health Care and Indigenous Australians
Cultural safety in practice
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Table of contents
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF FIGURES
- LIST OF TABLES
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 Talking about Indigenous health
- 2 Cultural frameworks for health
- 3 Cultural safety in practice
- 4 Taking a history
- 5 Determinants of health
- 6 Indigenous health today
- 7 Indigenous health priorities
- 8 Models of health
- 9 Capacity and resilience
- 10 Intercultural interactions
- 11 Health services and workforce issues
- 12 Indigenous health in a global context
- 13 Cultural safety: controversy and concerns
- 14 Reflection and practice
- References
- Index
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