Sentences with phrase «indigenous health literature»

Indigenous health literature is rife with examples of social, emotional and economic hardship.

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In a literature review, Anderson and colleagues advocated for ethical guidelines to promote transparent negotiation with Indigenous Australians about the potential benefits of proposed research, suggesting that this could occur by demonstrating that the investigators intend to contribute to improved health and wellbeing of participating communities; the proposal is linked with local Indigenous community priorities; the proposal contributes tangible and accessible outcomes for participants; and the proposal reflects needs identified in health improvement plans and strategies.4

The literature reflects that there is huge space for improvement in the current attitudes and views of non-Aboriginal health workers towards issues of health equity, including but not limited to eliminating racism and understanding the strength of Indigenous culture and self determination.

In practice, however, the literature located in this review suggests that cultural awareness training focuses on «indigenous culture» [for example, see 19], with little consideration of the broader health service or system and thus falls close to the «knowledge» end of the axis in Fig. 1.