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

• Published in: Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
• Main Authors: James M. Gerrard, Shirley Godwin, Vivienne Chuter, Shannon E. Munteanu, Matthew West, Fiona Hawke
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Cultural safety; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; First Nations; Indigenous; Podiatry; Diseases of the musculoskeletal system; RC925-935
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-021-00466-8; https://doaj.org/article/fa02d2b04f834632970ddaa3c3403c2f

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'...