What community-controlled comprehensive primary health care offers and why it matters for advancing health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
To call yourself a comprehensive primary health care service, you need to be more than a ‘sick care service’. You also need to be public health advocates to garner action on poverty and overcrowding.
You must invest in communities, develop leaders and reclaim community empowerment. You must look to act on social determinants of health as well.
Comprehensive primary health care as an accessible and generalist ‘front-line’ service based on relationships is the cornerstone of a sustainable health-care system
A model of community-controlled comprehensive primary health care will support consistently high
standards, ensure sustainability for primary health care services controlled as an act of self-
determination by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and achieve health equity
This is an outstanding piece of work, thoroughly comprehensive, and with reference to all the key elements, funding, workforce, training and, importantly, CQI.
It is, in my view, international best practice and of textbook quality. I know of nothing that is remotely comparable for mainstream health services in Australia.
This visualisation has been developed to convey the components of the Model of community-controlled comprehensive primary health care that is the foundation for this Core Services and Outcomes Framework.
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The Core Services and Outcomes Framework artwork was created by Kamilaroi artist, Ethan French.
The diagram is a visual representation of the Core Services and Outcomes Framework foundations for community-controlled primary health care. At the centre of the diagram is a meeting place which represents members of the community being the heart of this document. Each ring and section of the diagram represents each component of the Core Services and Outcomes Framework, with culture surrounding the whole diagram and foundations, which is a representation showing that culture is involved in all aspects of the Core Services and Outcomes Framework.
... health done ‘our way’ is unique.
It is a holistic system grounded in truth, lived realities, our culture, law and country. ...You can bring these ingredients together, utilise changing structures and relationships to design the culturally informed health models and work programs our people need. It is the way that we deliver our work from the ground up that informs the best policy and legislation. We have to seize this moment.
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