eMJA: Linking Indigenous health care with school education

Prevention and Promotion

Linking Indigenous health care with school education

Geoffrey M Forbes, Stephen J Davis, Martin D Robson, Anthony F Connell and Peter C Richmond

MJA 2009; 190 (10): 565-566

A holistic approach to education at Yipirinya School represents an extraordinary opportunity to deliver health care to Indigenous children

Last year, during a visit to Alice Springs, we witnessed first hand the consequences of inadequate provision of health care for Indigenous children. Although we are all specialist doctors, we were travelling in our capacity as fathers, accompanying our sons in a school-based “service” program.1 We experienced a unique, independent Indigenous school that we believe could provide a nexus for delivering health services to students and their communities. New models of service delivery are required to improve Indigenous health outcomes, and we believe that crossing bureaucratic boundaries between health and education might permit such progress.

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