Topic Category: Cultural perspectives

Additional reading Multicultural encounters (Bray, 2019) Cultural considerations in healthcare (Ausmed, 2019) How to care for patients from different cultures (Ferwerda, 2016) How to: Managing cultural diversity in community care (Bray, 2015) Building a more complete client picture (Shallcross, 2013). This article discusses the ecological perspective which takes into account the many systems that influence […]

Learning outcomes List factors to consider in multicultural patient interactions Presented by Nicole Reidy

Additional reading Healthcare cooperatives: A reliable enterprise model for health and wellbeing (UN, 2018) This paper is linked to the Cooperatives in Social Development EGM held in 2019. It focussed on the role of cooperatives in providing universal health care and eradicating rural poverty. Indigenous kinship: The heart of indigenous society. Indigenous society has three […]

Learning outcomes Describe what a health cooperative is List factors to consider in cross-cultural communication Presented by Hùng Nguyen, General Practitioner and Medical and Cultural Educator, and Jenny Ockwell, Wurundjeri woman and Manager of Aboriginal Health Services