Health Care and Indigenous Australians

Dr Kerry Taylor is a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Deputy Director with the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Well-Being at Flinders UniversityDr Pauline Guerin is affiliated with Flinders University in the Faculty of Health Sciences and is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University

• IntroductionChapter 1 Talking about Indigenous healthChapter 2 Cultural frameworks for healthChapter 3 Cultural safety in practiceChapter 4 Taking a historyChapter 5 Determinants of healthChapter 6 Indigenous health todayChapter 7 Indigenous health prioritiesChapter 8 Models of healthChapter 9 Capacity and resilienceChapter 10 Intercultural interactionsChapter 11 Health services and workforce issuesChapter 12 Indigenous health in a global contextChapter 13 Cultural safety: controversy and concernsChapter 14 Reflection and practice

This is a great introduction to many of the challenging historical and contemporary issues that student and practicing healthcare professionals must be aware of to enable provision of culturally competent and safe care for Indigenous Australians. I recommend it to my students, and for the ones that have it as a prescribed text, I tell them they cannot study in my Unit without it!