Release of the National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy 2020‐2025; the impacts for podiatry in Australia: a commentary
Abstract Background Developing since colonisation, Australia's healthcare system has dismissed an ongoing and successful First Nations health paradigm in place for 60,000 years. From Captain James Cook documenting ‘very old’ First Nations Peoples being ‘far more happier than we Europeans'...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:fa02d2b04f834632970ddaa3c3403c2f 2024-09-15T18:06:30+00:00 Release of the National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy 2020‐2025; the impacts for podiatry in Australia: a commentary James M. Gerrard Shirley Godwin Vivienne Chuter Shannon E. Munteanu Matthew West Fiona Hawke 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-021-00466-8 https://doaj.org/article/fa02d2b04f834632970ddaa3c3403c2f EN eng Wiley https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-021-00466-8 https://doaj.org/toc/1757-1146 1757-1146 doi:10.1186/s13047-021-00466-8 https://doaj.org/article/fa02d2b04f834632970ddaa3c3403c2f Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp n/a-n/a (2021) Cultural safety Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations Indigenous Podiatry Diseases of the musculoskeletal system RC925-935 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-021-00466-8 2024-08-05T17:50:05Z Abstract Background Developing since colonisation, Australia's healthcare system has dismissed an ongoing and successful First Nations health paradigm in place for 60,000 years. From Captain James Cook documenting ‘very old’ First Nations Peoples being ‘far more happier than we Europeans' and Governor Arthur Phillip naming Manly in admiration of the physical health of Gadigal men of the Eora Nation, to anthropologist Daisy Bates' observation of First Nations Peoples living ‘into their eighties' and having a higher life expectancy than Europeans; our healthcare system's shameful cultural safety deficit has allowed for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child born in Australia today to expect to live 9 years less than a non‐Indigenous child. Disproportionately negative healthcare outcomes including early onset diabetes‐related foot disease and high rates of lower limb amputation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples contribute to this gross inequity. Main body In 2020, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority released the National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy 2020–2025 ‐ empowering all registered health practitioners within Australia to provide health care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples that is inclusive, respectful and safe, as judged by the recipient of care. This recently released strategy is critically important to the podiatry profession in Australia. As clinicians, researchers and educators we have a collective responsibility to engage with this strategy of cultural safety. This commentary defines cultural safety for podiatry and outlines the components of the strategy in the context of our profession. Discussion considers the impact of the strategy on podiatry. It identifies mechanisms for podiatrists in all settings to facilitate safer practice, thereby advancing healthcare to produce more equitable outcomes. Conclusion Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples access health services more frequently ... Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 14 1 |
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Abstract Background Developing since colonisation, Australia's healthcare system has dismissed an ongoing and successful First Nations health paradigm in place for 60,000 years. From Captain James Cook documenting ‘very old’ First Nations Peoples being ‘far more happier than we Europeans' and Governor Arthur Phillip naming Manly in admiration of the physical health of Gadigal men of the Eora Nation, to anthropologist Daisy Bates' observation of First Nations Peoples living ‘into their eighties' and having a higher life expectancy than Europeans; our healthcare system's shameful cultural safety deficit has allowed for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child born in Australia today to expect to live 9 years less than a non‐Indigenous child. Disproportionately negative healthcare outcomes including early onset diabetes‐related foot disease and high rates of lower limb amputation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples contribute to this gross inequity. Main body In 2020, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority released the National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy 2020–2025 ‐ empowering all registered health practitioners within Australia to provide health care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples that is inclusive, respectful and safe, as judged by the recipient of care. This recently released strategy is critically important to the podiatry profession in Australia. As clinicians, researchers and educators we have a collective responsibility to engage with this strategy of cultural safety. This commentary defines cultural safety for podiatry and outlines the components of the strategy in the context of our profession. Discussion considers the impact of the strategy on podiatry. It identifies mechanisms for podiatrists in all settings to facilitate safer practice, thereby advancing healthcare to produce more equitable outcomes. Conclusion Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples access health services more frequently ... |
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Release of the National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy 2020‐2025; the impacts for podiatry in Australia: a commentary |
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Release of the National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy 2020‐2025; the impacts for podiatry in Australia: a commentary |
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Release of the National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy 2020‐2025; the impacts for podiatry in Australia: a commentary |
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Release of the National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy 2020‐2025; the impacts for podiatry in Australia: a commentary |
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Release of the National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy 2020‐2025; the impacts for podiatry in Australia: a commentary |
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