New online training, available through WA Primary Health Alliance’s SHAPE website, equips health care professionals with the skills and knowledge to create a supportive and culturally safe environment for Aboriginal people to discuss weight-related health concerns.
The Aboriginal Weight Management eLearning modules promote culturally safe practices by fostering understanding of Aboriginal community values, social determinants of health, and the impact of weight stigma.
For Aboriginal people, good health is more than just physical, with a strong focus on holistic wellbeing including the social, emotional, cultural and spiritual wellbeing of the individual and whole community – as well as connection to Country.
Through this training, health care professionals will gain skills to address unconscious bias, overcome barriers to care, and build stronger relationships with Aboriginal communities.
The Aboriginal Weight Management eLearning modules include:
- Population structure of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
- Social determinants of health.
- Being a culturally safe clinician.
- Health care frameworks and models.
- Healthy weight conversations.
- Resources for health care professionals.
These eLearning modules are approved by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners for 8.5 hours of educational activities and 2 hours of performance review.
Visit SHAPE to get started.
