Guides: Nursing & Midwifery: Indigenous & transcultural

Databases

ATSIHealth(Informit) The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography. Compiled by Neil Thomson and Natalie Weissofner at the School of Indigenous Australian Studies, Kurongkurl Katitjin, Edith Cowan University 13,000 records; 1900+
The Lowitja Institute literature search The Lowitja Institute, Australia's National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research, has created this filter to search PubMed for evidence-based research into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

Journals

Websites

Australian Indigenous Health Info Net The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet is an innovative Internet resource that aims to inform practice and policy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health by making research and other knowledge readily accessible. Source: Website
CATSIN (Congress of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Nurses)
Centre for Culture Ethnicity & Health Victorian organisation. Aims to assist health service providers to improve service delivery to Victoria's Non English Speaking background (NESB) communities. See the Hip Hop & Health project report Sept 2008. Beat Boxing and dancing followed workshops designed to educate young African & Arabic speaking young people, including refugees, about STIs and BBVs.
Diversity Health Institute The Diversity Health Institute (DHI) is a consortium of public health organisations that work together to improve the health and wellbeing of Australia's culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) community. The DHI is based in the Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS), however, it comprises of units with a statewide, national and international focus and is funded from a variety of sources including NSW Health and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
Foundation House (Victoria) free refugee health resources Detailed information guides for doctors and other health care providers. Focus on caring for refugees and asylum seekers from war-torn countries. Foundation House itself draws its clients from more than 30 countries and 15 language groups.
Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA) MMHA is funded under the National Mental Health Strategy and National Suicide Prevention Strategy by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
National Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Organisation See also active links to state groups on this website
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) Australian government body - part of Department of Health & Ageing
Transcultural Nursing Society The discipline of transultural nursing was founded by Dr. Madeleine Leininger in the 1950s
Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)