Aboriginal healthworkers
Subtitle: primary health care at the margins
By: Bill Genat  with Sharon Bushby ... [et al.]
Contributors: Bushby, Sharon.
Series: Contemporary issues
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Crawley, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781920694760
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care; Aboriginal Australians -- Services for; Health services accessibility -- Australia; Transcultural medical care -- Australia
Description: Primary health care services employ Aboriginal health care workers to help bridge the gap between the Western medical clinic and their own kin. Much controversy surrounds what they can and should be doing. Here, these healthworkers speak frankly about the state of Aboriginal primary health care in this country.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index.