Aboriginal health workers [DVD and online video] (2007)

Description

This resource is a training video intended for general practitioners and other practice staff working in Indigenous health. It is one of a set of four videos produced in 2002 by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) with funding from Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA). Since their original production, the training videos have been remastered as DVDs and are now freely available on the website of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (see links below). The four videos in the series are:

• Insight into Aboriginal community control
• Aboriginal Health Workers
• Cross cultural awareness
• Doctors in Aboriginal health

Aboriginal Health Workers

This video highlights the critical role of Aboriginal Health Workers around the country. It illustrates how Aboriginal Health Workers are at the frontline in delivering effective primary health care to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community across a broad range of services and locations.

In this video, Aboriginal Health Workers discuss:

• patient confidentiality and trust
• the importance of being local and knowing the community
• the significance of professional and cultural roles as Aboriginal Health Workers
• knowing how to communicate with Aboriginal patients - and knowing what not to say
• the importance of family focused care (not just patient focused care)
• the importance of cultural safety in a health care setting.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Contact details

National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
1 Palmerston Crescent
South Melbourne Vic 3205
Ph: (03) 8699 0499
Fax: (03) 8699 0400
Email: aboriginalhealth@racgp.org.au

Links

• View website: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
• View website: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

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