185387 - How to Treat quiz: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

How to Treat quiz: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

The solutions and strengths in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are familiar to general practices working in this field. The improvements to be gained in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health are those of good quality primary care, with which we are all involved. The work is necessary and rewarding and all of us working in primary care are invited to join in to make a real difference with people who have the most to benefit from what our profession has to offer. It does not require anything more of GPs than the simple task of doing well the work about which we are passionate.

D1. Communication skills and the patient-doctor relationship

• Communication is clear, respectful, empathic and appropriate to the person and their sociocultural context

D2. Applied professional knowledge and skills

• The conduct of the consultation is appropriate to the needs of the patient and the sociocultural context

D3. Population health and the context of general practice

• Barriers to equitable access to quality care are addressed

D4. Professional and ethical role

D5. Organisational and legal dimensions

• Aboriginal and Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander health
• Rural health
• Adult health
• Care of older people
• Children and young people health
• Men's health
• Pregnancy care
• Women's health