Health Care and Indigenous Australians: Cultural Safety in Practice

ISBN-13: 9781352005424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 274 str.

Kerry Taylor;Pauline Thompson Guerin

Opis

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

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1 Talking about Indigenous health Chapter 2 Cultural frameworks for health Chapter 3 Taking a history Chapter 4 Determinants of health Chapter 5 Indigenous health today Chapter 6 Indigenous health priorities Chapter 7 Models of health Chapter 8 Capacity and resilience Chapter 9 Intercultural interactions Chapter 10 Health services and workforce issues Chapter 11 Indigenous health in a global context Chapter 12 Reflection on practice

O autorze

Dr Kerry Taylor is a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Deputy Director with the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Well-Being at Flinders University

Dr Pauline Guerin is affiliated with Flinders University in the Faculty of Health Sciences and is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University

Blurb

Health Care and Indigenous Australians: Cultural Safety in Practice offers a comprehensive framework for creating a culturally safe environment and enhancing health outcomes for Indigenous Australians.

The approach taken in this book has been endorsed by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council and the Royal College of Nursing as a means to provide stand-alone subjects on Indigenous health in nursing curricula. This approach is also useful and beneficial to students and professionals from a wide range of other health disciplines.

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.