An opportunity to transform Australia’s neo-colonial health system
Alicia E. Veasey
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Abstract
The ‘modern’ value-based healthcare (VBHC) movement provides an opportunity to not only reform health care towards a more equitable, community-centred system, but to also acknowledge, honour and learn from global Indigenous knowledge, systems, and ways of valuing knowing, being and doing. For Australia as a settler-colonial state, efforts to implement VBHC here are doomed to fail until the continued legacy of settler-colonial violence and systemic racism pervading Australia’s healthcare system is acknowledged, addressed and ameliorated.
Keywords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, First Nations health, governance, health services, health systems, Indigenous health, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous systems, value-based health care.
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