Nicola S Anstice, Khyber Alam, James A Armitage, Brett Biles, Joanna M Black, Mei Ying Boon, Teah Carlson, Holly R Chinnery, Andrew V Collins, Anthea Cochrane, Debbie Duthie, Shelley Hopkins, Gary Fitzpatrick, Lisa Keay, Renata Watene, Aryati Yashadhana, Sharon A Bentley
Access to culturally safe health services is a basic human right, however through the lasting effects of colonisation, oppression, and systemic racism, the individual and community health of Indigenous peoples in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have been severely impacted. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy of the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency, and the Standards of Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety of the Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Board of New Zealand, recognise the importance of access to safe health care for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori patients, which encompasses both clinical competency and cultural safety...
November 6, 2022: Clinical & Experimental Optometry: Journal of the Australian Optometrical Association