• Michael Moore, CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia, supports calls for an increase the number of Aboriginal health workers in all hospitals and health care settings across Australia, and also calls for
further cultural safety training of medical staff regarding appropriate health care.
Secondly there is a need for
further cultural safety training of medical staff regarding appropriate health care.
Not exact matches
Landmarking a building for its historic or
cultural value stretches the police power beyond its traditional limits of protecting public health and
safety, and then stretches it still
further.
Elissa hopes that by producing the first empirically validated Aboriginal
Cultural Safety and Security framework, this research will provide the methodological foundation for
further research and policy that will contribute to improving both the accessibility and acceptability of hospitals for Aboriginal people in NSW.
Countries like New Zealand, Canada and the USA are
far more advanced in integrating culture through
cultural safety and
cultural competency into their health care systems (see references from NZ and the UK, for example).
Given the heightened public focus on an important concept that does not usually get much airtime, it is timely to take the opportunity to provide
further information about
cultural safety.