This unit focuses on key issues in Indigenous public health, reviews processes of policy formation to address these issues and subsequent implications for the practice of a competent and effective health practitioner or policy maker working in the field. Through case studies, it examines: policy-making and funding structures at macro, meso and micro operational levels; the comparative demographic and health status evidence base informing policy goals and funding allocations; federal and state jurisdictions; barriers to policy implementation; and the Aboriginal health practice implications. It investigates models of Indigenous primary health care, the broader health and Indigenous affairs... -- Course Website
Instructor: J Jessen (G)
