Sentences with phrase «indigenous health crisis»

We need to intensify our efforts and treat the Indigenous health crisis as a national priority.

My recommendations, reproduced in full on page 9, encapsulated a human rights based approach to ending the Indigenous health crisis — one that utilises targets and benchmarks to not only provide an end in sight, but also to ensure accountability for achieving the goal of health equality.

They have elevated the urgency of dealing with the Indigenous health crisis to a national priority and one that shares bipartisan support.

These achievements have elevated the urgency of dealing with the Indigenous health crisis to a national priority and one that shares bipartisan support.

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From boil water advisories on Indigenous reserves, to the opioid crisis, to the lack of affordable childcare, and the skyrocketing cost of education there are so many pressing issues impacting the health and survival of some this country's most vulnerable people.

Saunders» health crisis comes three years after the high - profile murder of her older sister, Loretta, a masters student in Halifax who was working on a thesis about missing and murdered Indigenous women at the time.

In growing opposition to Federal Budget health measures, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health leaders met in Canberra today for crisis talks about the implications of last week's Federal Budget and have called for proposed GP and other co-payments to be scrapped, saying they risk widening the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health.

Twenty years ago the landmark Burdekin Report into the human rights of people with mental health issues identified a crisis in Indigenous communities... Read more

The ongoing suicide crisis in remote Aboriginal communities also remained in the news, with a major new report from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP) expected to call for a radical rethink in Indigenous mental health policy to place Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at the centre of care.

For Indigenous Australians it identified a crisis comprising high rates of mental health conditions among us, the dreadful impacts of these on our communities, and the compounding influence of substance abuse.

The report declared there is a crisis in Indigenous ear and hearing health in Australia.

Most of the data we have about mental ill - health in Indigenous adults is that gleaned after crisis situations, when the mental health issue results in hospitalisation.

In fact, there are a number of disturbing indicators and trends that reveal an entrenched health crisis in the Indigenous population that need addressing if this gap is to close: