"cultural brokerage" and beyond: Piloting the role of an urban Aboriginal Mental Health Liaison Officer Health policies, systems and management in high-income countries

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  McKenna, Brian ^a,b   Fernbacher, Sabin ^b,c   Furness, Trentham ^a,b   Hannon, Michelle ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NorthWestern Mental Health   (Australia)

^c Northern Area Mental Health Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT REFERRAL; PILOT STUDY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESIDENTIAL CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PILOT PROJECTS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84941345419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2221-4     Document Type: Article

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