Optimizing Digital Solutions to Improve Access to Comprehensive Primary Health Care Services in Remote Indigenous Communities: Protocol for a Participatory Action Research Project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) peoples living in remote Australia experience a heavy burden of ill health and multiple barriers to accessing health care. Digital health technologies (DHTs) have the potential to help overcome some of these challenges and increase access to comprehensive primary health care (CPHC), thereby improving equity of health outcomes. However, little is known about the community and provider preferences for the use of digital technologies for improving health and wellness.

Objective

The study aims to co-design, implement, and evaluate how DHTs can improve access to CPHC in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory (NT), Australia.

Methods

This multiphased project will take a participatory action resea

SUBMITTER: Khanal V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12489406 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature