The establishment of a pre-hospital care model for isolated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities : project report.
Material type: TextPublication details: Kedron, Qld. : Queensland Ambulance Service, 1998Description: xvi, 112 p. : mapsISBN:- 0959819436 (pbk)
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"A project funded by the Rural Health Support, Education and Training (RHSET) Grants Program, Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services and the Queensland Ambulance Service"
Bibliography: p. 100-101
Project description and policy context -- Description of the Mornington Island and Doomadgee Communities -- Research findings -- Proposed policy framework, service model and guidelines -- Service establishment phase -- Findings of the external project evaluation
This report documents the importance of an integrated approach and the special considerations required to deliver ambulance services or prehospital care to isolated and remote indigenous communities. The relative isolation is a major factor. Funding, human resource implications, and the relatively poorer health status of indigenous people within these communities combine to produce unique challenges to ambulance service provision
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