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: Gerrard, James M., Godwin, Shirley, Chuter, Vivienne, Munteanu, Shannon E., West, Matthew, Hawke, Fiona
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2021
• Subjects: Commentary; Bates; First Nations
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8108329/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33971934; https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-021-00466-8

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 Arthu...