Health Services

Health services range from prevention and early detection in primary health care to ongoing treatment and specialist care at hospitals. All areas need to provide appropriate comprehensive primary health care services to reduce the burden of disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Key resources

Active projects

• Aboriginal Patient Journey Mapping Tools Project: Communicating complexity
• Culture mediation approach in Aboriginal primary health care: Impacts on screening and treatment for risky alcohol consumption
• Identifying the compliance requirements for Aboriginal Community Controlled Cooperatives in Victoria
• An integrated and comprehensive model of care targeting at-risk clients in metropolitan Aboriginal community controlled health service: Model development and evaluation plan
• Managing two worlds together: City hospital care for country Aboriginal people (in-kind project)
• Measuring quality of inpatient care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Completed projects

• Negotiating accountability: Trust in the relationship between an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and Australian Government funding staff (in-kind project)
• Core functions of primary health care services in the Northern Territory
• Revitalizing health for all: International Indigenous Representative Group
• Funding, accountability and results for Aboriginal health services – Closing the policy implementation gap? (FAR project)
• Taking Care of Business
• The Overburden project: Funding and regulation of primary health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• Improving the culture of hospitals
• Health services utilisation and linkage project – Stage 1
• Quality standards in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
• Support systems for Indigenous PHC services project
• The role of Aboriginal Community Controlled primary health care services in developing community capacity in Indigenous communities
• Evaluation of the Centre Northern Adelaide Health Services (CNHAS) Family and Community Healing Program
• Learning from action (management of Aboriginal health services)
• Sharing the True Stories

Publications

• B. Fredericks & D. Legge 2011, Revitalizing Health for All: International Indigenous Representative Group. Learning from the Experience of Comprehensive Primary Health Care in Aboriginal Australia—A Commentary on Three Projects, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne
• K. Silburn, A. Thorpe & I. Anderson 2011, Taking Care of Business: Corporate services for Indigenous primary health care services – Overview Report, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne
• K. Silburn, A. Thorpe & I. Anderson 2011, Taking Care of Business: Corporate Services for Indigenous Primary Health Care Services—Case Studies, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne
• J. Dwyer, K. O'Donnell, J. Lavoie, U. Marlina & P. Sullivan 2011, The Overburden Report: Contracting for Indigenous Health Services, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne
• A. Martini, U. Marlina, J. Dwyer, J. Lavoie, K. O’Donnell. & P. Sullivan 2011, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service Funding: Report to the Sector 2011, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne
• J. Dwyer, J. Kelly, E. Willis, J. Glover, T. Mackean, B. Pekarsky & M. Battersby 2011, Managing Two Worlds Together: City Hospital Care for Country Aboriginal People—Project Report, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne.  Six more publications from the Managing Two World Together project including a Community Summary can be found at the project page.
• M. Kelaher, A. Parry, S. Day, Y. Paradies, J. Lawlor & L.Solomon 2010, Improving the Identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Mainstream General Practice, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne
• M. Lawrence, Z. Dodd, S. Mohor, S. Dunn, C. de Crespigny, C. Power & L. MacKean 2009, Improving the Patient Journey: Achieving positive outcomes for remote Aboriginal cardiac patients, CRCAH, Darwin
• J. Dwyer, C. Shannon & S. Godwin 2007, Learning From Action: Management of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services, CRCAH, Darwin (Summary report available)
• A. Lowell, I. Brown,B. Marrnganyin, M. Flack, M. Christie, P. Snelling & A. Cass 2001, Sharing the True Stories: Improving communication between health staff and Aboriginal patients, Stage 1 report, CRCATH, Darwin
• K. Coulehan, I. Brown, M. Christie, G. Gorham, A. Lowell, B. Marrnganyin & B. Patel 2005, Sharing the True Stories: Evaluating strategies to improve communication between health staff and Aboriginal patients, Stage 2 report, CRCATH, Darwin

News

• Latest Managing Two Worlds Together paper now online, Wangka Pulka, August 2012
• Supporting corporate services, Wangka Pulka, August 2011
• Teasdale Corti project wraps up with ‘inspirational’ presentations, Wangka Pulka, August 2011
• Report focuses on improving the patient journey, Wangka Pulka, December 2011
• Community controlled health sector delivers ‘good health’, Wangka Pulka, December 2010

Related keywords

Burden of Disease | Community Control | Injury | Primary Health Care

Related Research Topics

Continuous Quality Improvement | Governance | Health Policy