• GEN Aged Care Data
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework
    • Metadata Online Registry (METeOR)
    • Australian Mesothelioma Registry
    • Housing data
  • Contact us
  • Help & tools
  • Increase text size
  • Decrease text size
Home - Australian Government - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - logo AIHW - logo
  • Home
  • COVID-19
    COVID-19
  • Reports & data Use down arrow to expand
    Reports & data

    Find reports & data by topic

    • Health & welfare overview
    • Health & welfare services
    • Population groups
    • Health conditions, disability & deaths
    • Behaviours & risk factors
    • Corporate publications
    Suicide & self-harm monitoring Data and information on suicide and self-harm in Australia Hospitals Australia’s national hospital reporting platform Australia's health performance The latest on Australia’s health and health system performance
    • A-Z topics
    • Latest releases
    • Resources

    Featured

    • Australia's health 2020 Australia's health 2020 is the AIHW’s 17th biennial report on the health of Australians.
    • Australia's welfare 2019 Australia’s welfare 2019 is the 14th biennial welfare report of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
  • Our services Use down arrow to expand
    Our services
    • Committees
    • Data on request
    • Data linkage
    • International collaboration
    • Metadata support
    • Validata
  • About our data Use down arrow to expand
    About our data
    • AIHW data by geography
    • Accessing government health & welfare data
    • Data governance
    • Metadata standards
    • Our data collections
  • News & media Use down arrow to expand
    News & media
    • Latest news & events
    • Media releases
    • For the media
    • Subscribe to release notices
    • Forthcoming releases
    • Podcasts
    • Australia's welfare photo competition
  • About us Use down arrow to expand
    About us
    • Careers
    • Freedom of information
    • Corporate publications
    • Our governance
    • Our people & structure
    • Our vision & strategic goals
    • Privacy
    • Public interest disclosure
    • Gifts & benefits register
    • Submissions to inquiries
    • Tenders
    • What we do
    • GEN Aged Care Data
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework
    • Metadata Online Registry (METeOR)
    • Australian Mesothelioma Registry
    • Housing data
  • Contact us
  • Help & tools
  • Increase text size
  • Decrease text size
You are here: Home Reports & data Indigenous Australians Cultural competency in the delivery of health services for Indigenous people
Go to Indigenous Australians
Share via email

Cultural competency in the delivery of health services for Indigenous people

Publication
Release Date: 31 Jul 2015
Topic: Indigenous Australians

Citation

AIHW

Roxanne Bainbridge, Janya McCalman, Anton Clifford and Komla Tsey (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse) 2015. Cultural competency in the delivery of health services for Indigenous people. Cat. no. IHW 157. Canberra: AIHW. doi:10.25816/5ec4ba84d1241

APA

Roxanne Bainbridge, Janya McCalman, Anton Clifford and Komla Tsey (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse). (2015). Cultural competency in the delivery of health services for Indigenous people. Canberra: AIHW.

MLA

Roxanne Bainbridge, Janya McCalman, Anton Clifford and Komla Tsey (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse). Cultural competency in the delivery of health services for Indigenous people. AIHW, 2015.

Vancouver

Roxanne Bainbridge, Janya McCalman, Anton Clifford and Komla Tsey (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse). Cultural competency in the delivery of health services for Indigenous people. Canberra: AIHW; 2015.

Harvard

Roxanne Bainbridge, Janya McCalman, Anton Clifford and Komla Tsey (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse) 2015, Cultural competency in the delivery of health services for Indigenous people, AIHW, Canberra.

Get citations as an Endnote file: Endnote

Download PDF

PDF | 1.6Mb

Other formats

 
Download PDF

This issues paper examines the available evidence on cultural competence in international and local literature. It defines cultural competency; reports on available evidence; identifies approaches and strategies that are effective in improving cultural competency among health services staff; examines the relationship between cultural competency and health outcomes; and documents an evidence-informed conceptual framework.

  • ISSN: 2201-845X
  • ISBN: 978-1-74249-766-2
  • DOI: Link to DOI: 10.25816/5ec4ba84d1241
  • Cat. no: IHW 157
  • Pages: 60
Findings from this report:
  • Cultural awareness training, especially when delivered over a short time, is not enough in itself

  • In Australia, there is no coherent approach to embedding cultural competence in health services

  • There is little evidence of how best to improve culturally competent healthcare delivery to Indigenous Australians

  • Cultural competency improves accessibility and effectiveness of healthcare for Indigenous people

Show navigation
Back to topic
  • Summary
  • Formats
  • Related material

Related material

Latest related reports

  • Closing the Gap targets: 2017 analysis of progress and key drivers of change  23 Apr 2018
  • Family violence prevention programs in Indigenous communities  13 Dec 2016
  • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a review of interventions for prevention and management in Indigenous communities  25 Feb 2015
  • Effective strategies to strengthen the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people  30 Nov 2014
  • Ear disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children  11 Nov 2014
  • Funding Indigenous organisations: improving governance performance through innovations in public finance management in remote Australia  15 Sep 2014
  • Data about and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians  28 Jul 2014
  • Improving labour market outcomes through education and training  28 Feb 2014
  • Increasing employment rates for Indigenous people with a disability  28 Feb 2014
  • Review of early childhood parenting, education and health intervention programs for Indigenous children and families in Australia  07 Feb 2014

Last updated 1/08/2017 v1.0

AIHW

  • Reports & data
  • Our services
  • About our data
  • News & media
  • About us

Using AIHW

  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
  • Disclaimer
  • Indexed list of files
  • Privacy
  • Site map

Quick links

  • Home
  • Our data collections
  • Data on request
  • Data linkage
  • Login

Connect with us

Follow AIHW on Twitter Visit AIHW on YouTube Connect with AIHW on LinkedIn

© Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2021

Creative Commons
Close

Feedback

We'd love to know any feedback that you have about the AIHW website, its contents or reports.

Required fields

The browser you are using to browse this website is outdated and some features may not display properly or be accessible to you. Please use a more recent browser for the best user experience.