What are Aboriginal community Controlled Health Services?
An Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service (ACCHS) is an incorporated Aboriginal organisation initiated by and based in a local Aboriginal community. They deliver a holistic and culturally appropriate health service to the community.
What is the role of Aboriginal community Controlled Health Services?
Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, are ‘a primary health care service initiated and operated by the local Aboriginal community to deliver holistic, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate health care to the community who controls it, through a locally elected Board of Management’ [11].
What are community controlled services?
A Community Controlled Health Services (CCHS) is controlled by community members (through a locally elected board), so it can address the comprehensive health and wellbeing needs of its local community. CCHS are independent and not controlled by the government.
What services do Acchos provide?
ACCHO’s provide holistic, comprehensive and culturally appropriate primary health care, they deliver health and broader social outcomes that are not matched by mainstream services. ACCHO’S are regarded as unique and culturally informed model of primary health care.
What is the difference between mainstream health services and Aboriginal community Controlled Health Services?
In mainstream general practice the doctors are in charge clinically and usually they own the practice or they may well own the practice or so they are in charge and they are in control, whereas in a community controlled service the clinicians are answerable to the board.
Who funds Aboriginal community Controlled Health Services?
Federal Government
In 1997, the Federal Government funded NACCHO to establish a Secretariat in Canberra, which greatly increased the capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people involved in ACCHOs to participate in national health policy development.
Who funds Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services?
What types of health and nursing services are available for Aboriginal elders in the community?
Aboriginal Health.
What is the difference between mainstream health services and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services?
What is the name of your closest Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service?
NACCHO. The national authority on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander comprehensive primary health care.
What is the name of your closest Aboriginal Community Controlled health Service?
What is the difference between mainstream health services and Aboriginal Community Controlled health Services?
How does Aboriginal community controlled health service work?
An Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service is a primary health care service initiated and operated by the local Aboriginal community to deliver holistic, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate health care to the community which controls it, through a locally elected Board of Management.
How many community controlled health services are there in Australia?
Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services Report Card 2016 This report card provides information from about 140 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) providing care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. During 2014–15 these services saw about 275,000
Who is the Aboriginal community controlled health sector conference 2019?
Welcome to the 2019 West Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector Conference, which is hosted annually by the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA).
How does community controlled health care system work?
An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Service (ACCHS) is a primary health care service that is initiated and operated by the local community to deliver holistic, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate health care to the community which controls it (through a locally elected Board of Management).
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