Health Care and Indigenous Australians - 3rd Edition by Kerry Taylor & Pauline Thompson Guerin (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Now in its third edition, this core textbook offers a comprehensive framework for creating a culturally safe environment and enhancing health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Through case studies, discussions, reflections and critiques of health issues in Australia today, Health Care and Indigenous Australians offers a starting point for learning about cultural safety in an Indigenous health context, and is essential for students, academics and practitioners alike.

This is key reading for anyone taking courses on Indigenous health modules in nursing, midwifery and health related courses at undergraduate or postgraduate level, as well practitioners and academics

From the Back Cover

Health Care and Indigenous Australians: Cultural Safety in Practice offers a comprehensive framework for creating a culturally safe environment and enhancing health outcomes for Indigenous Australians.

The approach taken in this book has been endorsed by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council and the Royal College of Nursing as a means to provide stand-alone subjects on Indigenous health in nursing curricula. This approach is also useful and beneficial to students and professionals from a wide range of other health disciplines.

Through case studies, discussions, reflections and critiques of health issues in Australia today, Health Care and Indigenous Australians offers a starting point for learning about cultural safety in an Indigenous health context, and is essential for students, academics and practitioners alike.

Review Quotes

"This is a great introduction to many of the challenging historical and contemporary issues that student and practicing healthcare professionals must be aware of to enable provision of culturally competent and safe care for Indigenous Australians. I recommend it to my students, and for the ones that have it as a prescribed text, I tell them they cannot study in my Unit without it!" --Dr Liz Rix, Southern Cross University, Australia

"It explains the core issues for nurses working with Indigenous people in Australia today. Well written, accessible and well informed, I find it accessible and easy to connect with." --Janet Kelly, Adelaide School of Nursing, University of Adelaide, Australia

About the Author

Dr Kerry Taylor is a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Deputy Director with the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Well-Being at Flinders University

Dr Pauline Guerin is affiliated with Flinders University in the Faculty of Health Sciences and is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University
Dr Kerry Taylor is a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Deputy Director with the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Well-Being at Flinders University
Dr Pauline Guerin is affiliated with Flinders University in the Faculty of Health Sciences and is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University