Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 780756 |
Registration status: | Indigenous, Standard 07/04/2024 |
Definition: | An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker (AHW) liaises with patients, clients, visitors to hospitals and other medical facilities and staff at health clinics, and works as a team member to arrange, coordinate and provide health care delivery in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community health clinics. Registration or licensing may be required (ABS 2019). |
Context: | First Nations primary health care |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Reference documents: | ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (2019) ANZSCO Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations, 2013, version 1.3, ABS website, accessed 23 February 2022. |
Relational attributes | |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care staffing categories code N[N]{.NN} Indigenous, Standard 07/04/2024 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care worker type code N[N] Indigenous, Standard 07/04/2024 Online Services Report (OSR) DSS 2020–21 Indigenous, Standard 07/04/2024 |