Forgetting Compliance: Aboriginal Health and Medical Culture
Details:
Title
Forgetting Compliance: Aboriginal Health and Medical Culture,
Creator
Humphery, K,
Weeramanthri, Tarun S,
Fitz, Joseph,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Date
2001,
Abstract
This study provides both a critical insight into the institutionalised culture of health services provision in the Northern Territory and, most importantly, points towards ways in which that culture can be transformed. We conclude that 'compliance', thought of as a measure of patient uptake, must be forgotten. Instead, provision and uptake issues must be thought about simultaneously, as two sides of the one coin. Although 'local' in focus, the findings of the study have ramifications for Aboriginal health policy and service provision nationally.,
Notes
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Table of contents
1. Compliance and the mechanics of medical treatment: an exploratory review of a dubious concept -- 2. Compliance beyond the West: culture, communication and the medical encounter -- 3. Probing compliance: health professionals in the Northern Territory -- 4. Talking non-compliance: work, location and language -- 5. Talking non-compliance: problem, culture and setting -- 6. Talking non-compliance: provision and uptake.,
Language
English,
Subject
2002 - Cultural Studies,
1199 - Other Medical and Health Sciences,
Indigenous,
Health and Medicine,
Publisher name
Northern Territory University Press in association with the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health,
Place of publication
Darwin,
Format
xi, 122 pages ; 26 cm.,
File type
application/pdf,
ISBN
9781876248598,
1876248599,
Use
Attribution International 4.0 Non Commercial (BY SA),