ArticleBMJ global health2021
Unique knowledge, unique skills, unique role: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers in Queensland, Australia.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Implementing healthcare decolonisation for Indigenous people: a systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2025Pooled it
- Implementing healthcare decolonisation for Indigenous people: a systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2025Pooled it
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- Exploring integrated tertiary care for children from Nunavut: experiences of families and healthcare providers at the Aakuluk clinic in Ottawa, Canada.International journal of circumpolar health · 2025Article
- The Heart Health Yarning Tool: Co-Designing a Shared Decision-Making Tool With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Risk Management.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- A scoping review of knowledge translation in strengthening health policy and practice: sources, platforms, tools, opportunities, and challenges.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Guiding practice principles for clinicians who work with Indigenous people.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Primary Health Care Systems and Their Contribution to Universal Health Coverage and Improved Health Status in Seven Countries: An Explanatory Mixed-Methods Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- "They feel shame sometime, but that is why we need to talk to them…we need to tell them how important it is not to feel shame": Hepatitis B related shame and improving hepatitis B care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the Top End of the Northern Territory, according to the Aboriginal health workforce.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
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- Healthcare social network research and the ECHO model™: Exploring a community of practice to support cultural brokers and transfer cultural knowledge.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Attitudes to Short-Term Staffing and Workforce Priorities of Community Users of Remote Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services: A Qualitative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- Chest pain epidemiology and care quality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Victoria, Australia: a population-based cohort study from 2015 to 2019.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2023Article
- "The most culturally safe training I've ever had": the co-design of a culturally safe Managing hepatitis B training course with and for the Aboriginal health workforce of the Northern Territory of Australia.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Cape York Kidney Care: service description and baseline characteristics of a client-centred multidisciplinary specialist kidney health service in remote Australia.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- A mixed methods study of Aboriginal health workers' and exercise physiologists' experiences of co-designing chronic lung disease 'yarning' education resources.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Exploring the Reported Strengths and Limitations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research: A Narrative Review of Intervention Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
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Abstract
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers (A&TSIHWs) are a professional cadre of Australian health workers typically located in primary care clinics. The role is one of only two that is 'identified'- that is, it must be occupied by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person - and holds specific responsibilities in relation to advocating for facility-level cultural safety. However, lack of understanding of the distinctive skills, scope and value associated with the A&TSIHW role remains pervasive in the broader health workforce. Positioned to represent the perspective of those working as A&TSIHWs, and drawing on 83 in-depth interviews with A&TSIHWs and others, this qualitative study reports on the core functions and distinctive orientation of the role, and seeks to articulate its distinctive value in the modern Queensland health service. Findings highlight the multifaceted (generalist) nature of the A&TSIHW role, which comprises three core functions: health promotion, clinical service and cultural brokerage. Underpinning these cross-cutting functions, is the role's unique orientation, defined by client-centredness and realised through Indigenous strengths based ways of knowing, being and doing. The findings highlight how the A&TSIHW role is one of the only mechanisms through which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge can be brought to bear on context-specific adaptations to routine health service practices; and through which the impacts of lack of cultural or self-awareness among some non-Indigenous health professionals can be mitigated. The complexity of such work in a government health system where a dominant biomedical culture defines what is valued and therefore resourced, is under-recognised and undervalued and contributes to pressures and stress that are potentially threatening the role's long-term viability.
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