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Closing the Disadvantage Gap on Indigenous Disadvantage Indigenous Health Program Officers

ISO 9001 Lic QEC22546 SAI Global. Closing the Disadvantage Gap on Indigenous Disadvantage Indigenous Health Program Officers Orientation Workshop The Grace Hotel Carla Saunders March 1 st 2010.

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Closing the Disadvantage Gap on Indigenous Disadvantage Indigenous Health Program Officers

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  1. ISO 9001 Lic QEC22546 SAI Global Closing the Disadvantage Gap on Indigenous Disadvantage Indigenous Health Program Officers Orientation Workshop The Grace Hotel Carla Saunders March 1st 2010

  2. “Addressing Indigenous disadvantage is a national responsibility that will require the energy and commitment of all Australians”

  3. Background • Too many Indigenous Australians experience unacceptable levels of disadvantage in living standards, life-expectancy, education, health and employment • Rates of chronic disease, mental illness and hospitalisation are significantly higher for the Indigenous population than the non Indigenous population

  4. Chronic illness

  5. Broad Reform Agenda

  6. Government Indigenous Policy On 29 November 2008 the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to an historic $1.6 billion National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes to address the first of the COAG Closing the Gap targets – to close the life expectancy gap within a generation

  7. Government Indigenous Policy Within the new Indigenous Health National Priority (NP), five priority areas have been identified: • Tackling smoking • Primary health care services that can deliver • Fixing the gaps and improving the patient journey • Providing a healthy transition to adulthood • Making Indigenous health everyone’s business

  8. Government Indigenous Policy • Over the next four years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will benefit from: • More than 133,000 additional health checks • 400,000 additional chronic disease management services • More than 300,000 episodes of allied health care services and around 110,000 additional episodes of specialist care • An expanded health workforce

  9. Implementation Tackling chronic disease risk factors Initiatives to tackle the key risk factors for chronic disease in Indigenous communities, such as smoking and other lifestyle factors

  10. Implementation A key focus of the package is on improving the detection and management of chronic disease and addressing known barriers to accessing health care This will be achieved through an integrated suite of reforms to existing programs, supported by new initiatives including support for general practice and other primary health care providers to coordinate chronic disease management

  11. http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/docswr/_assets/main/documents/working_with_aboriginal.pdfhttp://www.community.nsw.gov.au/docswr/_assets/main/documents/working_with_aboriginal.pdf

  12. http://www.aifs.gov.au/sf/findings/indigenous.html

  13. http://ab-ed.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/files/working-with-aboriginal-communities.pdfhttp://ab-ed.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/files/working-with-aboriginal-communities.pdf

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