The desert people of the Kutjungka region of Balgo, Mullen and Bililuna communities improved their access to quality primary health care by establishing their Aboriginal Controlled Cultural Health Service called the Palyalatju Maparnpa Health Committee (PMHC).
PMHC was established in 2001 and is an Aboriginal Controlled Cultural Health Service located in the remote Kutjungka region in Western Australia.
This is an organisation through which Indigenous and non Indigenous people are working together to develop better and more appropriate health care systems for our communities.
Their orientation towards Cultural Health means PMHC recognizes the importance of addressing social, traditional, emotional and physical well being when addressing Indigenous health issues.
As such they research, develop and conduct a diverse array of programs and projects related to issues of community health – from bush medicine and traditional healing to environmental health, nutrition, bush tucker, maternal and child health and much more. |
