… and its health service; and on their mental health 32 … Indigenous health, 36 that ACCHOs
are important not only because their health care helps to improve Indigenous Australians' health…

… program for mental health professionals who work with Indigenous clients. This brief …
Indigenous people. We begin with an overview of the health disparities experienced by Indigenous …

… Indigenous access to mainstream health services. The Inala Indigenous Health Service, a
mainstream health service has been able to improve Indigenous access from 12 Aboriginal …

… ofproviding health services by indigenous paraprofessionals. … Indigenous qualities of a
common language, understanding of a client's health beliefs and the barriers to health service …

… This has affected service delivery at the individual clinical level as well as at the broader
system levels, the combined effect being the inequity in access to mental health services by …

… is not aware of available services. • There are many strategies for successfully improving
Indigenous access to urban and regional health services. Individual service providers need to …

… Yet Indigenous people do not access mental health services … for Indigenous people seeking
mental health services in … of partnerships for improved service delivery and future research. …

… health services and health care providers, such as nurses, is often found lacking by Ma-ori
(Indigenous to Aotearoa New Zealand), compromising their access and use of health services …

… Two focus group discussions were held with clients of two urban Indigenous health services
in Brisbane; an ACCHS (n = 11) and a Queensland Government-controlled Aboriginal …

… All of the participants were Top End Mental Health Service clinical and allied health staff,
80% of whom had been working in Indigenous mental health for more than 5 years. …