
%0 Journal Article
%A Rose, Miranda 
%A R. Jackson Pulver, Lisa 
%T Aboriginal Health Workers: professional qualifications to match their health promotion roles
%J Health Promotion Journal of Australia
%D 2004/12/01
%V 15
%N 3
%P 240-244
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/HE04240
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HE04240 
%X Aboriginal Health Workers are recognised as critical to meeting the health promotion needs of Indigenous communities, but addressing the complexity of these needs requires Aboriginal Health Workers to have a high level of professional skills and knowledge. Considerable progress has been made in developing health worker training programs, particularly in the vocational sector. However, a national review finds that training is still inadequate for enabling health workers to meet the level of communities' health needs and asks why this is so. 
