-
- Stephen Bryce.
- Gapuwiyak Health Centre, Northern Territory. STEPHENBRYCE@bigpond.com.au
- Aust Fam Physician. 2002 Jul 1; 31 (7): 617621617-21.
BackgroundIt is generally accepted that adherence or compliance to medical therapy can be poor in indigenous Australian communities.ObjectiveThis paper describes approaches and techniques to improve adherence that have been gleaned from four and a half years of clinical experience in the remote district of East Arnhem Land.DiscussionFirst, the importance of gaining trust and credibility with a community is discussed. Approaches to gain that trust are then described. It is critical to overcome the considerable language and world view barriers that exist to good communication. The use of anatomical models and high quality illustrations combined with the development of 'key language concept' in the indigenous language have achieved some success in this area.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..