Executive summary Shared attitudes and behaviours in health care: A core capabilities resource for disability health (the Resource) aims to support the best possible healthcare for individuals with disability by: articulating the expected attitudes and behaviours of the health care workforce building on the capacity of the current health care workforce improving continuity and collaboration across the range of health care settings increasing awareness of workforce requirements across the disability and health sectors supporting the development of new and functions providing defined attitudes and behaviours to inform the development of the future health care workforce. The Resource can be applied across the range of health care settings. This includes public, private and community managed/non-government services. Health care settings include tertiary, secondary and primary healthcare across Western Australia. The Resource was developed by the Disability Health Network’s Workforce Development Working Group in response to Recommendation 4 from the WA Health 3. It targets health care workers and disability support workers who work to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals with disability. The following guiding principles underpin the Resource and have been adopted from the WA Disability Health Framework: Improving the health care of people with disability 2015-25: person-centred responsive and flexible respect and dignity collaboration continuous improvement. The social model of disability was used as the foundation of the development of the Resource. This Resource has six sections which represent the overarching domains of activity common to the Western Australian health care workforce. It identifies areas of activity shared by the health care workforce in the delivery of treatment, care and support of individuals with disability. It
Executive summary Shared attitudes and behaviours in health care: A core capabilities resource for disability health (the Resource) aims to support the best possible healthcare for individuals with disability by: articulating the expected attitudes and behaviours of the health care workforce building on the capacity of the current health care workforce improving continuity and collaboration across the range of health care settings increasing awareness of workforce requirements across the disability and health sectors supporting the development of new and functions providing defined attitudes and behaviours to inform the development of the future health care workforce. The Resource can be applied across the range of health care settings. This includes public, private and community managed/non-government services. Health care settings include tertiary, secondary and primary healthcare across Western Australia. The Resource was developed by the Disability Health Network’s Workforce Development Working Group in response to Recommendation 4 from the WA Health 3. It targets health care workers and disability support workers who work to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals with disability. The following guiding principles underpin the Resource and have been adopted from the WA Disability Health Framework: Improving the health care of people with disability 2015-25: person-centred responsive and flexible respect and dignity collaboration continuous improvement. The social model of disability was used as the foundation of the development of the Resource. This Resource has six sections which represent the overarching domains of activity common to the Western Australian health care workforce. It identifies areas of activity shared by the health care workforce in the delivery of treatment, care and support of individuals with disability. It
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