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Indigenous cultural training for health workers in Australia

Culturally inappropriate health services contribute to persistent health inequalities. This article reviews approac... Show more
Culturally inappropriate health services contribute to persistent health inequalities. This article reviews approaches to indigenous cultural training for health workers and assesses how effectively they have been translated into training programmes within Australia. With a focus on the conceptual and empirical literature on indigenous cultural training for health workers within selected settler-colonial countries, together with published evaluations of such training programmes in Australia, this review shows that the evidence for the effectiveness of indigenous cultural training programmes in Australia is poor. Critiques of cultural training from indigenous and non-indigenous scholars suggest that a 'cultural safety' model may offer the most potential to improve the effectiveness of health services for indigenous Australians.
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Authors: Downing, Rosie; Kowal, Emma; Paradies, Yin

Date: 2011

Geographic subjects: Australia; Oceania

Resource type: Article

Journal title: International journal of quality in health care

Subjects: Indigenous people; Culture and society; Equity ... [+] Show more