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HEALTH EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING ABORIGINAL HEALTH A STUDY OF THE NURSE'S ROLE
Author(s) -
SOONG F. S.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1975.tb140362.x
Subject(s) - salient , health education , diversity (politics) , nursing , perception , field (mathematics) , health information , psychology , medical education , health care , medicine , sociology , political science , public health , anthropology , pure mathematics , law , mathematics , neuroscience
There exists a considerable diversity of views on health education of Aborigines in Australia. In this paper, the author presents some information concerning the perceptions of nurses on their health education roles. The results of the study led to the formulation of two models of health education: the information‐giving model and the human and communitiy development model. The salient features of these two models and their implications in terms of staff training of both European and Aboriginal workers in the health field in general, and in health education in particular, are discussed.