'Yarn with me': Applying clinical yarning to improve clinician-patient communication in Aboriginal health care

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 377-382

  Lin, Ivan ^a   Green, Charmaine ^a   Bessarab, Dawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

communication barriers; culture; doctor patient communication; education; Indigenous; patient centred care

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASES; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; REVIEW; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION BARRIER; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84992146073     PISSN: 14487527     EISSN: 18367399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PY16051     Document Type: Review

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