Essential understandings

The Indigenous Health Resource Pack focuses on eight learning areas which, in turn, are clustered into three overarching themes. Each of the eight areas contains important contextual information – essential understandings – to help you identify the key health information relevant to Indigenous peoples in Australia.

Indigenous artwork by Lucy Simpson

Artwork by Lucy Simpson, Gaawaa Miyay Designs, gaawaamiyay.co.

Insights into Indigenous culture

  1. Heterogeneity of Indigenous Australians
  2. Health, social and emotional wellbeing
  3. Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing
  4. Spirituality

Impacts of colonisation and racism

  1. Colonisation, racism and chronic disease
  2. Social Justice
  3. Transgenerational trauma

A shared future

  1. Resilience, survival and thriving
Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.