Diabetes is one of the most significant health issues facing Indigenous Australians. The delivery of culturally safe health services, including by appropriately skilled Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners, is vital to efforts to reduce the present and future burden of diabetes.
The Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) is investigating diabetes-specific educational opportunities for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners. They want to know where this workforce get the information and skills they need to enable them to provide diabetes care and have developed the below two surveys to help gather this information. The results will be used to inform current availability of diabetes-related education and to identify opportunities in this area.
The closing date for these brief surveys is Friday 23rd April.
Survey for Health Workers and Practitioners
Please follow this link or share with your Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker and Practitioner colleagues, and ask them to share with their contacts too…even if their role is not specifically in diabetes. All feedback is valuable and appreciated. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners can go into the draw to WIN a one-year Associate Membership to the ADEA when they complete this short survey, click here.
Survey for managers and employers of Health Workers and Practitioners
Please click on this link, or kindly share with your management, if you are working at a service where Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners are part of the health care team.
For more information or to provide additional feedback, please contact Anna Blackie on anna.blackie@marathonhealth.com.au or 0428 310 233.