The specialist services supplied are not just clinical. These workers provide a multitude of valued roles to local Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities and health organisations, reflecting their unique understanding of local Indigenous culture, history and language as well as being key community ...
“This is great because you’ve got young people who want these jobs in communities and too often you go to an Aboriginal community and all the health providers are white fellas from outside the communities. “Whether it’s teachers or health workers, we need to take control of that oursel...
treaty lands of several other bands of Ojibwe and the headwaters of theMississippiRiver in northernMinnesota, the project has brought not just jobs but controversy and discord into the most intimate spheres of spirituality, family and community...
Nov. 26, 2019, Executive Order 13898, Operation Lady Justice, created a task force for missing and murdered AI/ AN peoples that will address the concerns of Indigenous communities in the U.S., such as data collection, policies and establishing cold-case teams and improving investiga- tive ...
Indigenous peoples; Saami people; traditional knowledge; biological diversity; revitalisation; Indigenous rights; pathfinders; stewardship; cultural heritage; resource extraction1. Introduction Indigenous peoples have for the past decades increasingly argued that not only is their traditional knowledge to be ...
It has been noted that attention should focus on how cancer service providers deliver services to their Indigenous patients and on ways in which they can improve to better meet the needs of Indigenous peoples [12,13,17]. In Australia, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cancer ...
To provide the latest evidence for future research and practice, this study critically reviewed Indigenous peoples’ cancer care experiences in the Australian healthcare system from the patient’s point of view. After searching PubMed, CINAHL and Scopus databases, twenty-three qualitative studies were...
with respect, fear of child removal) are acknowledged and mitigated in personal and tailored ways. Through all aspects of data collection and dental service provision, Indigenous participants need to feel safe in any encounter with the dental sector; from the receptionist through to the specialist....
The findings reinforce the importance of addressing the well-known, existing barriers that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in remote Australia experience when attempting to access primary and specialist healthcare including turnover of staff in primary healthcare and undersupply of specialists...
Improving cancer outcomes for Indigenous people by providing culturally safe, patient-centred care is a critical challenge for health services worldwide. This article explores how three Australian cancer services perform when compared to two national bes