NSW Community Health Review

Culturally and linguistically diverse

  1. Adequate face to face interpreter services
  2. how to seek help and reach services. making them more friendly for use
  3. Health promotion and education.
  4. awareness of needs and availability of same. Education and understanding. Increased staff
  5. Access and equity
  6. Health Promotion, Education ( English lessons) jobs
  7. Health promotion & intervention across cultures and ensuring interpreters are used appropriately
  8. Cultural competency of staff providing services
  9. culturally appropriate services delivered by well trained professionals
  10. health promotion and prevention, access to health care encouraged through support groups, local media etc.
  11. Depending on the demographic area - where there is a minority, enabling services to be able to adequately care for these clients
  12. HEALTH PREVENTION AND PROMOTION TREATMENT AND CONTINUING CARE
  13. coordinated community based responses
  14. training workforce in culturally and linguistically diverse populations
  15. interpreter services, family centres of co-located 'one stop shop' health clinics, support staff for generalist case management
  16. health Promotion, Health Prevention, tracking, recall and surveillance to prevent/monitor chronic conditions
  17. Health promotion, investigations and appropriate treatment, ongoing care modalities
  18. access issues mainly around need for interpreters
  19. Health Promotion
  20. Violence prevention
  21. Ease of use and access to community health services eg. websites that have links to different languages as needed
  22. better and increased access to interpreters & support from migrant health workers
  23. culturally sensitive health promotion/ prevention
  24. interpreters for emerging communities ,bi lingual workers with health background
  25. health promotion and education
  26. general comments difficult as issues and needs vary.
  27. Consultation with community to ascertain specific needs and delivery of programs that meet these needs.
  28. Limited requirement in rural NSW - higher priorities of Chronic care, Adolescents and Families
  29. advocacy to assist existing community health workers.

  30. community based programs

  31. Community based services

  32. Depends on the group - but adequate health status assessment of refugees is needed