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  • Addressing the gap in Indigenous health: Government intervention or community governance? A qualitative review

    Author(s)
    Sorensen, Roslyn
    Fowler, Cathrine
    Nash, Chris
    Bacon, Wendy
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Sorensen, Ros
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    The high incidence of sexual abuse of Indigenous children in remote Australia prompted the Australian Government to implement an emergency response of health and welfare measures (the Intervention) in 2007 to protect children and communities from harm. In this article we seek to assess the measures employed in the Intervention against the body of evidence of strategies likely to be effective in reducing Indigenous health disadvantage. Our view is that the emergency response may not have long-term benefit because of the dearth of basic primary health services in remote Aboriginal communities to continue the effort that the ...
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    The high incidence of sexual abuse of Indigenous children in remote Australia prompted the Australian Government to implement an emergency response of health and welfare measures (the Intervention) in 2007 to protect children and communities from harm. In this article we seek to assess the measures employed in the Intervention against the body of evidence of strategies likely to be effective in reducing Indigenous health disadvantage. Our view is that the emergency response may not have long-term benefit because of the dearth of basic primary health services in remote Aboriginal communities to continue the effort that the Intervention has begun. We conclude that Intervention measures are not sufficiently well aligned with evidence-based health improvement strategies to bring about long-term health gain in Indigenous communities. Governments must reassess the benefit of externally-imposed approaches to reducing health disparity and move to actively build capacity in Aboriginal communities to deliver culturally-relevant health and social services that meet community need.
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    Journal Title
    Health Sociology Review
    Volume
    19
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2010.19.1.020
    Subject
    Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
    Public Health and Health Services
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49351
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