Cape York Kidney Care: service description and baseline characteristics of a client-centred multidisciplinary specialist kidney health service in remote Australia

• Published in: BMC Health Services Research
• Main Authors: Andrea Miller, Leanne Brown, Clara Tamu, Alice Cairns
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2023
• Subjects: Chronic disease; Chronic kidney disease; Primary care; First Nations; Indigenous; Multidiscplinary; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Cape York
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09887-6; https://doaj.org/article/c3f45c6654484d72908af44696bbc821

Abstract Background Chronic Kidney disease (CKD) is over-represented amongst First Nation people with more than triple the rate of CKD in those aged 15 years and over. The impact of colonisation, including harmful experiences of health practices and research, has contributed to these health inequiti...