Now in its fourth edition, this core textbook offers a comprehensive framework for creating a culturally safe environment and enhancing health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Through case studies, discussions, reflections and critiques of health issues in Australia today, Health Care and Indigenous Australians offers a starting point for learning about cultural safety in an Indigenous health context, and is essential for students, academics and practitioners alike.

New to this edition:

- New indigenous co-author and a range of indigenous chapter contributors.
- Incorporates a strengths-based approach to working with and talking about Indigenous health.
- Discussion of intergenerational trauma.
- New chapters on social and emotional wellbeing, decolonising practice, racism, discrimination and truth telling.
- Expanded discussion on the continuum of cultural safety.
- Discussion on the nuances of reflective and reflexive practice.
- Updated research, referencing, policy and statistics.
- A focus on decolonisation throughout and how colonialism can impact practice.
- New case studies and scenarios.

This is key reading for anyone taking Indigenous health modules on nursing, midwifery and health related courses at undergraduate or postgraduate level, as well practitioners and academics.

Kerry Taylor is an Associate Professor at Flinders University, Australia. She has been involved in health research and education relating to First Nations populations and cultural safety for over 20 years. She has worked in remote health and nursing education, was acting Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & Wellbeing, based in Alice Springs.

Pauline Thompson is a Professor of Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine campus, in Media, PA, USA. Prior to that appointment, she was at Flinders University of South Australia in the School of Nursing and Midwifery and the co-director of the Poche Center for Indigenous Health.

Cheryl Davis is a Yuat/Balladong/Wadjuk/Wardandi Noongar woman from the south-west of Western Australia. She completed a Masters in Public Health and is currently a PhD Candidate and Chair of Aboriginal Health at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle in Western Australia. She has worked in teaching, learning, and research and has been a leader in Aboriginal Health over the past 25 years across Australia.