The PHN Multicultural Health Framework aims to improve health and wellbeing outcomes and experiences for multicultural communities across all PHN regions. It provides high-level guidance and best practice actions to support PHNs to deliver locally informed and relevant responses in partnership with other stakeholders.
The Framework was developed by representatives from approximately 20 PHNs including members of the PHN Multicultural Health Framework Working Group and the National PHN Cultural Diversity Community of Practice.
Development involved a review of existing frameworks and guidelines including those already developed by PHNs and key sector leaders including Mental Health Australia (the Framework for Mental Health in Multicultural Australia), Migrant and Refugee Health Partnership, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, and the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health.
The Framework for Mental Health in Multicultural Australia and the PHN Multicultural Health Framework are complementary resources that work hand-in-hand with the former providing a tool for operationalizing continuous improvements in culturally responsive mental health service delivery for PHNs and their commissioned mental health services.
Link to resource: 2024_02_27_MulticulturalHealthFramework_A4_Final_Digital (bsphn.org.au)