Abstract
![CDATA[Expanding and strengthening the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professional workforce is recognised as crucial for improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. A key challenge for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health managers in both the mainstream and community-controlled health sectors is the recruitment, support, development and retention of a suitably skilled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professional workforce to meet local community needs. The Career Pathways Project is an Aboriginal-led national research project that is funded by the Lowitja Institute. In line with the conference theme of ‘better together’, this national project came about through the merging of two separate, but highly complementary proposals that the Lowitja Institute received as a result of a call for research into ‘Career Pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Professionals’. At the request of the Lowitja Institute, these two competitive submissions from NSW and the NT were combined into a single comprehensive, national project.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 15th National Rural Health Conference, 24-27 March 2019, Hobart, Tasmania |
Publisher | National Rural Health Alliance |
Number of pages | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | National Rural Health Conference - Duration: 1 Jan 2019 → … |
Conference
Conference | National Rural Health Conference |
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Period | 1/01/19 → … |
Keywords
- Aboriginal Australians
- health services
- public health personnel