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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers’ and Liaison Officers’ role in quality acute health care services

Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers/Practitioners and Liaison Officers are qualified professionals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Care. There are different terms for this profession and a variety of roles for this workforce which are key to closing gaps in health, wellbeing, and social outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Despite their crucial role, their work is challenged by lack of clarity about their roles, diverse expectations, racism, varying levels of acceptance by non-Indigenous clinicians of their value in health care and working in culturally unsafe environments. Aims To explore how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers/Practitioners/Liaison Officers are involved in the delivery of quality hospital care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. To explore how the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers/Practitioners/Liaison Officers facilitate improved health ou

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Community Action for Health: Evidence from India

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School-based salt education programme in China lowers blood pressure and offers huge potential for scale-up

A school-based salt education programme in China has worked with families, teachers and health educators to raise awareness about the risks of excess salt consumption and encourage people to reduce salt use in cooking. ‘EduSaltS’ reduced salt consumption and blood pressure in family members of the primary school children involved and is the first large-scale salt education programme to show such significant results. The approach is now being piloted in districts in Beijing and serves as a model which could be scaled up in China and other countries to help tackle cardiovascular disease – the biggest global killer. Excessive salt intake is the leading dietary risk factor for premature death and disability in China, with 80% of dietary salt added during cooking. A high-salt diet is associated with raised blood pressure, which increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases (such as heart attacks and stroke), the leading cause of death in low- and middle-income countries. The EduS

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