Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples may experience poorer healthcare outcomes than non-Indigenous people when treated by non-Indigenous health professionals and healthcare organisations. This is evident in kidney disease care, where, for example, some of the disparity to access kidney transplantation is explained by bias among non-Indigenous kidney specialists against waitlisting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients due to concerns about non-compliance.
However, actions are being taken at multiple levels to reduce the poorer healthcare outcomes provided by non-Indigenous health professionals and healthcare organisations to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Perspectives Brief identifies four key intersecting domains of cultural safety, institutional racism, NSQHS standards, race discrimination law.