Working with Indigenous Peoples - Ethics, Protocols and Research
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These core subject areas are key to the learning about the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and were idenitifed in the Committee of Deans of Australian Medical Schools Indigenous Health Curriculum Framework.
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Working with Indigenous Peoples - Ethics, Protocols and Research |
| Analyse the concepts of community development, ownership, consultation, empowerment, research capacity-building, reciprocity and respect. Explain their roles in health care delivery and working / researching with Indigenous individuals and communities. |
| Identify key principles in developing collaborative and ethical relationships with Indigenous peoples. |
| Identify key community contacts, mentors and support structures in the provision of effective health care. |
| Describe the role of partnership,ownership and ethics in developing appropriate research methodology. |
These curriculum resources will aid your teaching and enrich your curriculum, and help you achieve the key student attributes and outcomes.
Resources
Books
Clarke, A ., Andrews, S. & Austin, N. 2000. Lookin After Our Own, Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne.
Stringer, E. & Genat, W. 2004. Action Research in Health, Upper Saddle Creek, Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall.
Waples-Crowe, P. & Pyett, P. 2005. The Making of a Great Relationship: a Review of a Healthy Partnership between Mainstream and Indigenous Organisations, Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Melbourne.
Altman, J. & Hinkson, J. (eds). 2007. Coercive Reconciliation. Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia (2007), Arena Publications Association, Melbourne.
The Howard government has declared a national emergency and mobilised a coalition of police, army and others in what they suggest will be the ‘first phase’ of a program to tackle child sexual abuse in remote Aboriginal Australia. This book inlcludes the view of a wide range of authors contextualise the crisis facing remote Aboriginal communities and the government’s most recent response in light of the history of and wider policy towards Aboriginal Australia.
Reports
Journals
Couzos, S., Lea, T., Murray, R. & Culbong, M. 2005.'We are Not Just Participants - We are in Charge: The NACCHO Ear Trial and the Process for Aboriginal Community-controlled Health Research', Ethnicity & Health, Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp. 91-111.
Kowal, E., Anderson, I. & Bailie, R. 2005. 'Moving Beyond Good Intentions: Indigenous Participation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol. 29, pp.468-70.
Indigenous Health Special Issue. 2003, British Medical Journal, Vol.327, no.7412.
Indigenous Health Special Issue. 2007, The Medical Journal of Australia, Vol.186, no.10.
Humphery, K. 2001. 'Dirty Questions: Indigenous Health and 'Western research', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol.25, No.3, pp.197-202.
Waples-Crowe, P. & Pyett, P. 2006. 'Learning from a Successful Partnership between Mainstream and Indigenous Organisations', Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, Vol. 30,(2), 4-5, 33
Audio visual
Harrison, K. 2005. 'Crossing the Line', Ronin Films, Australian Film Comission and New South Wales Televsion Office, Link Enterpises and Change Focus Media.
Sherwood, C. and Franklin, R. 1992, 'Who Killed Malcolm Smith?', Film Australia, Australia.
An intimate and sensitive an portrayal of the true story of Malcolm Charles Smith's life and death told through his friends and family. Malcolm was an Aboriginal prisoner in a Sydney gaol, when he was discovered in a toilet cubicle, the handle of an artist's paintbrush driven through his left eye.
Websites
Australian Indigenous Health Infonet
Australian Medical Association, Report cards on Indigenous Health
The Univeristy of Tasmania Indigenous Health Theme Bank
We are seeking additional resources, so if you have any publications, audio visual materials or websites that you recommend and would like to add to this list please email us using the contact us form.