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Health Organisation and System Cultural Competence Interventions

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Cultural Competence in Health

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Despite advocacy for systems-level approaches to cultural competence, the primary focus in the literature remains on competence strategies aimed at health promotion initiatives, workforce development and student education. This chapter aims to bridge the gap in available evidence about systems approaches to cultural competence by systematically searching, selecting and synthesising existing publications to map key concepts, types of evidence and gaps in research.

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  1. Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

    Crystal Jongen, Janya McCalman & Roxanne Bainbridge

  2. The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Smithfield, Queensland, Australia

    Janya McCalman & Roxanne Bainbridge

  3. School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Anton Clifford

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Jongen, C., McCalman, J., Bainbridge, R., Clifford, A. (2018). Health Organisation and System Cultural Competence Interventions. In: Cultural Competence in Health. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5293-4_7

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