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Author Genat, William.

Title Aboriginal healthworkers : primary health care at the margins / Bill Genat with Sharon Bushby ... [and others]
Published Crawley, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2006

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Description xiii, 226 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
Series Contemporary issues
Contemporary issues.
Contents 1. At the frontline -- 2. Grassroots healthworker practice -- 3. Working alongside healthworkers -- 4. Engaging the health system -- 5. Genesis of a healing practice?
Summary Primary health care services employ Aboriginal health care workers to help bridge the gap between the Western medical clinic and their own kin. Much controversy surrounds what they can and should be doing. Here, these healthworkers speak frankly about the state of Aboriginal primary health care in this country
Analysis Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia)
Complementary & alternative medicine (Australia)
Health care issues & services (Australia)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography : page 213 -222
Subject Aboriginal Australians in medicine.
Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care.
Aboriginal Australians -- Services for.
Health services accessibility -- Australia.
Medical personnel -- Australia.
Transcultural medical care -- Australia.
Delivery of Health Care.
Primary Health Care.
Community Health Workers -- organization & administration.
Health Services, Indigenous -- organization & administration.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Health Workforce.
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Primary Health Care.
Workforce.
Vulnerable Populations.
Australia.
Australia.
Author Bushby, Sharon.
LC no. 2007367125
ISBN 1920694765
9781920694760
Other Titles Aboriginal healthworkers
Aboriginal health workers