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Questioning the ethics of evidence-based practice for Indigenous health and social settings in Australia

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About this journal article:

This article questions how evidence-based practice is applied in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and social settings. It argues that dominant Western approaches to reviewing and ranking evidence can sideline Aboriginal knowledge, community-control and local decision-making, and calls for more ethical ways of generating and using evidence in practice and policy.

  • Year: 2022 
  • Journal article authors: Joanne Luke, Ebony Verbunt, Angela Zhang, Muriel Bamblett, Gabrielle Johnson, Connie Salamone, David Thomas, Sandra Eades, Lina Gubhaju, Margaret Kelaher and Amanda Jones 
  • Research summary author: Carla Chan Unger 
  • Organisations: The University of Melbourne, VACCA, and the Menzies School of Health Research 
  • Journal: BMJ Global Health 

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