Cultural respect and related concepts: a brief summary of the literature

Neil Thomson

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Shortcomings in the way that the health care system addresses the needs of Australia’s Indigenous peoples have been recognised for many years… The Australian cultural respect framework [has] benefited not only from the earlier work undertaken in Western Australia on cultural security, but also related developments in other countries – particularly the concepts of cultural safety in New Zealand and cultural competence in the United States. It is important, therefore, to provide a general review of cultural respect and related concepts… View review