Launch of the
3rd edition of the Aboriginal Primary HealthCare:
An evidence-based approach textbook

12md on 31st October on the Sam Male room veranda

This landmark textbook - Aboriginal Primary Health Care: An Evidence-based Approach - was first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press and developed by the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council to fill a gap in student teaching. Now in its 3rd edition (2007), this textbook is used in universities, and by educators at all levels of health curricula and throughout Australia, to teach students about the health needs of Aboriginal peoples.

The book is a product of the ACCHS sector - the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council (KAMSC) and NACCHO. It is a national resource and comprises more than 40 authors across Australia with 23 chapters. As the primary resource on this subject for universities and other teaching institutions, it has revolutionised curricula, and is educating a cohort of health professionals that now have a greater evidence-based appreciation of the causes and solutions to health problems affecting the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

Proceeds from book sales support the continued operations of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services. This book is also dedicated to the memory of the late Dr Puggy Hunter, who instigated the first edition of this book when he was Director of KAMSC and as the inaugural Chair of NACCHO. The dedication provides information to students across Australia of the source of the 'Puggy Hunter Scholarships' which are offered to Aboriginal students and funded by the Australian Government every year.

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