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Telemental Health Services for Indigenous Communities in Australia
2017Telemental health has been recognized as one of the key methods to closing disparities in health indices in the indigenous Australian populations. The conditions in which Australia’s indigenous communities are presently living have also been equated with parts of the world with limited resources.
Sisira Edirippulige +2 more
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Global Focus, Local Acts: Providing Mental Health Services to Indigenous People
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2011Four fundamental challenges to the provision of mental health services to indigenous populations are discussed, including proximity to services, community knowledge of mental health principles, human resource use, and cultural congruence. We describe concepts common to most indigenous approaches to mental well-being, including restoring health through ...
Kirk, Zinck, Shelly, Marmion
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2005
How traditional healing can be enhanced in cities, has been the subject of discussion between myself and Indigenous Elders, and between many others, for over 15 years. This project was initiated and completed through the recommendations of Indigenous Elders, through prayer and dreaming, and through increasingly specific factors: 1.
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How traditional healing can be enhanced in cities, has been the subject of discussion between myself and Indigenous Elders, and between many others, for over 15 years. This project was initiated and completed through the recommendations of Indigenous Elders, through prayer and dreaming, and through increasingly specific factors: 1.
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Improving Indigenous patients’ access to mainstream health services: the Inala experience
Medical Journal of Australia, 2009In 1994, only 12 Indigenous people attended the mainstream general practice in Inala, south-western Brisbane, Queensland. An Indigenous community focus group and telephone interviews revealed deficits such as: few items (eg, artwork) that Indigenous people could identify with; lack of Indigenous staff; staff perceived as unfriendly; inflexibility ...
Hayman, Noel E. +2 more
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Engaging Indigenous People in Mental Health Services in Australia
2017Engaging with Indigenous Australians through appropriate and effective mental health services is an urgent imperative in Australia. The health status of Indigenous Australians lags unacceptably behind other Australians on almost every aspect of health, including mental health.
Timothy A. Carey, Dennis R. McDermott
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Contemporary Nurse, 2006
Indigenous psychiatric morbidity, whilst culturally different in presentation to white communities has been suggested to run at a mean prevalence rate of 13.5% of the major disorders found in non-Indigenous communities. This paper discusses the socio-political and cross cultural issues to do with mental health for Australian Indigenous from a non ...
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Indigenous psychiatric morbidity, whilst culturally different in presentation to white communities has been suggested to run at a mean prevalence rate of 13.5% of the major disorders found in non-Indigenous communities. This paper discusses the socio-political and cross cultural issues to do with mental health for Australian Indigenous from a non ...
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International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2019
AbstractThis article presents findings from the multi‐sited ethnography of mental health nursing practice as it relates to the care of Indigenous users of public mental health services in Australia. It provides an analysis of mental health nurses beliefs and ideas about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people encountered over the course of this ...
Luke Molloy +3 more
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AbstractThis article presents findings from the multi‐sited ethnography of mental health nursing practice as it relates to the care of Indigenous users of public mental health services in Australia. It provides an analysis of mental health nurses beliefs and ideas about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people encountered over the course of this ...
Luke Molloy +3 more
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Australasian Psychiatry, 2018
Objective: To report on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) users of MindSpot, a national service for the remote assessment and treatment of anxiety and depression. Methods: The characteristics and treatment outcomes of Indigenous patients who registered with MindSpot between January 2015 and December 2016, were compared with non ...
Nickolai Titov +4 more
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Objective: To report on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) users of MindSpot, a national service for the remote assessment and treatment of anxiety and depression. Methods: The characteristics and treatment outcomes of Indigenous patients who registered with MindSpot between January 2015 and December 2016, were compared with non ...
Nickolai Titov +4 more
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The Canada Health Act and Medicare Services for Indigenous Peoples
HealthcarePapersThe Canada Health Act (CHA) (1985) has fostered gaps in Indigenous healthcare services, through its ambiguous inclusion of Indigenous communities without acknowledging their unique needs and failing to engage the fact that provincial/territorial, federal and Indigenous governments all act as primary care providers.
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