Sentences with phrase «indigenous health disadvantage»

It captures the objectives, outcomes, outputs, performance measures and benchmarks that all governments have committed to in order to close the gap in Indigenous health disadvantage.

Poverty, unemployment, poorer education and economic marginalisation are key socio - economic drivers of indigenous health disadvantage.

Not exact matches

However, it is exactly this history of colonisation which has created disadvantage for Indigenous peoples across a range of determinants of health (Rowse, 2012).

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

We now have solid government targets to address Indigenous disadvantage in health, education and employment.

The report profiles Australia's young Indigenous population and the disproportionate disadvantages they face in areas such as employment, housing, education, health, mortality, and contact with the criminal justice system.

A number of the provisions of ICESCR are directly relevant to the disadvantage suffered by Indigenous Australians, including rights to an adequate standard of living, including in housing and infrastructure; the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health; and an adequate standard of education.

Indigenous people are more likely to experience disabilities caused by structural disadvantage, including poverty and inaccessible health services.

General health issues, it seems, are picked up within the related broader policy goals of the Commonwealth which it declares are to «address directly the effects of severe socio - economic disadvantage suffered by Indigenous people through improved outcomes in health, housing, education and employment» [104].

[t] he government came to office with a firm commitment to address the unacceptable level of disadvantage suffered by Australia's Indigenous people, particularly in the key socio - economic areas of health, housing education and employment»; [27]

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Conversely, such an approach could also harness the contribution closing the mental health gap could make to closing the many Indigenous disadvantage gaps.

This means that in this area, the health differential between the most and the least disadvantaged Indigenous Australians is much greater than for other Australians.

The impact of this disadvantage is mediated within a context in which indigenous Australians have poorer access to adequate housing, a healthy physical environment, and good health and related community services.

If members of the Government were truly committed to closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage they would do all they could to improve access to primary health care since this would help to deal with the challenges related to cancer rather than intensify them.

Publicity over the treatment of Gurrumul Yunupingu turns the spot light on one of the more disturbing aspects of the failure of the Australia health system to close the gap in health outcomes which leave Indigenous Australians at such a disadvantage.

«Also worth noting is the significant cross-portfolio investment for a package of education, employment and health initiatives designed to Close the Gap in Indigenous disadvantage — worth $ 526.6 million over 5 years.

Instead, the government's announcements will increase the health and social disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, and set back the objective of closing of the gap on Indigenous disadvantage within a generation.

We call on Australian governments to take the Burdekin Report's recommendations and others since to heart, and to recognise there is an unacceptably large Indigenous mental health and suicide gap, and the impact of mental health conditions on so many areas of disadvantage.

A major report from the Productivity Commission, Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, recently found further declines in Indigenous wellbeing and mental health, and an increase in incarceration rates.

In a new direction for her career, Dr Trust outlined her role in the Wunan Foundation, a new approach to improving Indigenous disadvantage through addressing health in the broader context of peoples» lives.

I believe that if doctors and health care professionals treat their Aboriginal patients as individuals, rather than a homogenous group of disadvantaged health consumers, we can work towards «closing the gap» within Indigenous health care.

The Health Plan was developed in close collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as part of the Council of Australian Government's (COAG) approach to Closing the Gap in Indigenous disadvantage.

This means that the impact of the oral health gap is to increase the disadvantage already experienced by Indigenous Australians in many aspects of life.

I want to read to you the statement that they endorsed about Indigenous health and disadvantage generally.

Parenting skills and a variety of family risk factors are influenced by the effects of disadvantage, meaning that Indigenous children are more likely to miss out on the crucial early childhood development opportunities that are required for positive social, educational, health and employment outcomes later in life.

«PHAA has been calling for the development a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Determinants of Health Policy as a key strategy in closing the gap and overcoming Indigenous disadvantage.

Most egregiously, this has led to the axing of primary health care research, development and evaluation with the loss of the PHCRED Strategy and BEACH; mental health reforms floundering between Primary Health Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisahealth care research, development and evaluation with the loss of the PHCRED Strategy and BEACH; mental health reforms floundering between Primary Health Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisahealth reforms floundering between Primary Health Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisaHealth Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisations.

However, Indigenous Australians continue to suffer grossly disproportionate rates of disadvantage against all measures of socio - economic status, including health (ABS, 2013; AIHW, 2011a, 2011b).

Kevin Rudd presented his report card on closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage and life expectancy to Parliament today (correction, it was actually on Thurs 11th), but he got a much tougher assessment from a «shadow report» released by Close the Gap, a coalition of more than 40 of Australia's leading health, human rights and Aboriginal organisations.

As does Australia's Welfare 2013, the Productivity Commission paper identifies lone parents and their children, Indigenous Australians, people with a long - term health condition or disability, and people with low educational attainment as most vulnerable to long - term disadvantage.

Many Indigenous people are disadvantaged across the full range of social indicators; health, housing, employment, education, etc — this disadvantage impacts upon their ability to understand and engage in the process

Upon its election in 1996, the Howard government indicated that it would not provide an additional package of measures to address the consequences of dispossession, but would instead focus on redressing Indigenous disadvantage in the key priority areas of health, housing, education and employment.

The Committee expresses its deep concern that, despite the efforts and achievements of the State party, the indigenous populations of Australia continue to be at a comparative disadvantage in the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, particularly in the field of employment, housing, health and education (UN Doc E / C.12 / 1 / Add.50, 1 September 2000)

«Practical reconciliation» emphasises the importance of addressing Indigenous disadvantage in key areas of health, housing, employment and education.

The submission highlights concerns with Australia's implementation of the treaty in relations to Indigenous issues including native title, heritage, deaths in custody, mandatory sentencing, self determination, the stolen generations and Indigenous disadvantage especially in relation to education, housing and health.

Developing appropriate standards of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health information was identified as a national health information priority in 1995, with the National Indigenous Health Information Plan (1997) being developed as a consequence.301 However, the plan remains largely unimplemented.302 The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report has also identified concerns about the quality of data available on health measures contained in that framewohealth information was identified as a national health information priority in 1995, with the National Indigenous Health Information Plan (1997) being developed as a consequence.301 However, the plan remains largely unimplemented.302 The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report has also identified concerns about the quality of data available on health measures contained in that framewohealth information priority in 1995, with the National Indigenous Health Information Plan (1997) being developed as a consequence.301 However, the plan remains largely unimplemented.302 The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report has also identified concerns about the quality of data available on health measures contained in that framewoHealth Information Plan (1997) being developed as a consequence.301 However, the plan remains largely unimplemented.302 The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report has also identified concerns about the quality of data available on health measures contained in that framewohealth measures contained in that framework.303

In addition, broader commitments at the level of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to address Indigenous disadvantage can also be considered an address to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health to the degree they address the social determinants of health.

The new Health Performance Framework is consistent with the COAG principles for service delivery and incorporates the majority of the health related performance measures from the National Reporting Framework on Indigenous Disadvantage and extends these to cover health outcomes more broadly such as health conditions, mortality by leading causes and health system performance beyond the issue of accessibiliHealth Performance Framework is consistent with the COAG principles for service delivery and incorporates the majority of the health related performance measures from the National Reporting Framework on Indigenous Disadvantage and extends these to cover health outcomes more broadly such as health conditions, mortality by leading causes and health system performance beyond the issue of accessibilihealth related performance measures from the National Reporting Framework on Indigenous Disadvantage and extends these to cover health outcomes more broadly such as health conditions, mortality by leading causes and health system performance beyond the issue of accessibilihealth outcomes more broadly such as health conditions, mortality by leading causes and health system performance beyond the issue of accessibilihealth conditions, mortality by leading causes and health system performance beyond the issue of accessibilihealth system performance beyond the issue of accessibility.147

In many cases, the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Framework, as well as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework provide an appropriate basis for establishing targets and benchmarks with deadlines in the short and medium term across a variety of contributing areas.

The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Framework, as well as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework provide an appropriate basis for establishing time bound targets and benchmarks in the short and medium term across a variety of contributing areas that should ultimately contribute to the achievement of equal rates of life expectancy.

It recommends in particular that decisive steps be taken in order to ensure that a sufficient number of health professionals provide services to Indigenous peoples, and that the State party set up benchmarks for monitoring progress in key areas of Indigenous disadvantage.198

Fourth, the specific commitments to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality have progressed parallel to the agreement by COAG of commitments and processes to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage more generally (such as through the establishment of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage reporting framework and the principles for service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanddisadvantage more generally (such as through the establishment of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage reporting framework and the principles for service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslandDisadvantage reporting framework and the principles for service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples).

Such benchmarks and targets should be based on the indicators set out in the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Framework and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework.

The Framework, led from «front of government» by then Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, appears to place equal value on the «pillars» of health — health, lifelong learning, safe and sustainable communities, housing, economic opportunity, lands and resources, and governance and relationships.19 It has also been suggested that there has been an increased realisation in Australian policy that a broadly based approach is required across government departments to address health disadvantages faced by Indigenous Australians.20

Comparable broadly based strategies aimed at dealing with indigenous disadvantage in Canada, administered through the Aboriginal Horizontal Framework in 2005,19 suggest that the need for partnership is being increasingly recognised as a means of ensuring continuity in any indigenous health program.

A national college of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health could contribute to the long - term strategy necessary to address the health disadvantages faced by Indigenous Australians.

Ochre Day is an indigenous men's health event targeting the needs and issues of one of Australia's most disadvantaged demographics.

and while they were made in relation to Indigenous health equality they form a template for the type of approach that is needed across all areas of poverty and disadvantage experienced by Indigenous peoples.

In addition the document does not conceal the problems facing the indigenous populations, this sector which finds itself in a great disadvantage within Australian society, in practically all aspects affecting the quality of life, housing for instance, health, employment, and education.