Sentences with phrase «indigenous health leaders»

«There also needs to be a way in which NACCHO and other Indigenous health leaders can come together with COAG to agree a «refreshed approach» to Close the Gap», said Mr Singer.

In an advertorial for The Age, the University of Melbourne announced a new research centre that aims to support and train future Indigenous health leaders.

Indigenous health leaders said CQI required significant resources and can't be implemented as an «add on».

Croakey will report later on the Prime Minister's statement and responses from Indigenous health leaders and groups.

Indigenous health leaders call for support for Uluru Statement and a secure future for premier research institute

Indigenous health leader Pat Anderson will today warn that Australia's Aboriginal medical services risk being driven away from their roots and original missions by growing pressure to chase specific purpose funding for «technical «interventions»».

Marie McInerney reports: Indigenous health leader Pat Anderson will today warn that Australia's Aboriginal medical services risk being driven away from their roots and original missions by g...

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In his fourth reshuffle in 16 months as leader, Mr Turnbull also promoted Assistant Health Minister Mr Ken Wyatt to become Minister for Aged Care and Indigenous Health.

This has brought together a wide spectrum of leaders in their fields: regenerative agriculturalists, biophysical and social scientists, education and policy professionals, indigenous leaders, health and environmental practitioners and others.

Health care and community leaders from over a dozen Indigenous communities across the country have gathered in London this week to launch a national roll - out of strategies for diabetes prevention...

The Ark Animal Hospital are the leaders in providing culturally - sensitive dog health services to remote Indigenous communities.

«Recognition of our women's roles as leaders, standing beside our aboriginal men leaders within our governance structures, would «ensure strong and health indigenous communities once again» as Lavell - Harvard stated.

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According to health sector leaders in attendance, there was no mention of climate, and no mention of Indigenous health (or anything related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people).

At the same time, health leaders — including the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) and other nursing and midwifery groups, the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, and other peak health groups have spoken up for the importance of cultural safety for improving care and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Most Indigenous leaders, however, criticised the debate's focus on the communal and inalienable tenure of Indigenous land for obscuring the real factors in Indigenous poverty in remote areas such as illiteracy, poor health, inadequate housing and basic infrastructure like sewerage, roads and communications as well for elevating the economic value of the land at the expense of its spiritual and political importance to Indigenous people.

It is important that leaders around the world listen to First Nations peoples and our solutions — as Naera says: «It's of utmost important to all political leaders, health specialist, researchers, and community groups working with and or developing policies for Indigenous peoples.»

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.

Canadian First Nations health leader Dr Alexandra King said the benefits of antiretroviral therapies (ART) were many and convincing, but they would not address many of the cause issues for Indigenous people with HIV and were also raising a number of ethical issues.

She cited the best practice and best evidence elements of the Wharerata declaration on the development of indigenous leaders in mental health:

Amongst her many commitments, she is a Commissioner of the Australian National Mental Health Commission, deputy chair of the Australian Indigenous Psychologist's Association, chair of the National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Leaders Mental Health, and co-chair of the ministerial Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Group.

On day one of the conference, Pirkis will chair a plenary panel on suicide and the economy, featuring former leader of the Liberal party Dr John Hewson, Indigenous health and education researcher from the University of Wollongong Professor Ngiare Brown, and mining chairman and Murdoch University chancellor David Flanagan.

Public health leaders from around the world will have the opportunity to listen to and learn from Indigenous leaders with deep expertise in preventing suicide among First Nations people.

Working in the area of translational research with a population health focus, in which it is a world leader, the HealthInfoNet makes research and other information available in a form that has immediate, practical utility for practitioners and policy - makers in the area of Indigenous health, enabling them to make decisions based on the best available evidence.

Peggy Manton - Williams, Team Leader Community & Allied Health, Inala Indigenous Health 13.

The ATSISPEP team leaders — Indigenous National Mental Health Commissioner Professor Pat Dudgeon, Professor Jill Milroy, Dean of the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia, and Professor Tom Calma, Expert Adviser and Convener of the ATSISPEP National Advisory Committee — said they hope the Federal Government agrees they have placed Indigenous suicide prevention activity «on a firm foundation» through the report which:

Wenitong said the Apunimpima Cape York Health Council, where he is Senior Medical Officer, had established an Indigenous Leaders Group to ensure the service (which has 150 staff, 70 of whom are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) «really is community controlled».

Indigenous mental health leaders have welcomed the government's response to the national mental health review as a «promising start» but has called for clarity on the small print and urged the government to consult and collaborate with the community.

In March this year, the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, Ministers for Health and Indigenous Affairs, every major Indigenous and non-Indigenous peak health body and others signed a Statement of Intent to Close the Gap on Indigenous Health Equality which sets out how this commitment would bHealth and Indigenous Affairs, every major Indigenous and non-Indigenous peak health body and others signed a Statement of Intent to Close the Gap on Indigenous Health Equality which sets out how this commitment would bhealth body and others signed a Statement of Intent to Close the Gap on Indigenous Health Equality which sets out how this commitment would bHealth Equality which sets out how this commitment would be met.

Dudgeon said the «next step of the response, where much of the detail will be decided, is critical,» and called on the government to engage with the community and relevant stakeholders / leaders in Indigenous mental health, suicide prevention and substance abuse:

In her presentation based on Australian research, Dr O'Donnell highlighted the importance of building strong working relationships between government departments and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, but pointed out that there is a lack of national strategic direction to support engagement with Indigenous leaders and peak bodies.

Labor: Does not mention justice issues in its Indigenous health election statement but Opposition leader Bill Shorten pledged last November to set justice targets with a focus on community safety, preventing crime and reducing incarceration, and to support research into justice reinvestment.

Public health concerns like white privilege and racism were on the agenda at the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education Network conference in Townsville last week (see more details in this... Read more

Public health leaders spoke to Croakey about working with the new Government and concerns about changes to a range of portfolios in the new Abbott Ministry, particularly the loss of individual portfolios in mental health, Indigenous health, disability and aged care.

Importantly, other organisations, including a coalition of NT Aboriginal organisations and Change the Record and Miwatj Health, have emphasised the need for immediate consultation with Indigenous health and community leaders, and the youth justice sector, in developing the terms of reference, and that the Government commit to funding and implementing the Commission's recommendaHealth, have emphasised the need for immediate consultation with Indigenous health and community leaders, and the youth justice sector, in developing the terms of reference, and that the Government commit to funding and implementing the Commission's recommendahealth and community leaders, and the youth justice sector, in developing the terms of reference, and that the Government commit to funding and implementing the Commission's recommendations.

«I'm praying and hoping there will be no damage but I'm not really confident,» Choctaw health leader Professor Karina Walters told Croakey after delivering a keynote speech on historical trauma at the Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference 2016 in Melbhealth leader Professor Karina Walters told Croakey after delivering a keynote speech on historical trauma at the Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference 2016 in MelbHealth and Wellbeing Conference 2016 in Melbourne.

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is emerging as a major success factor in improving Indigenous primary health and health care in Australia — but sector leaders say there must be consistent national support as the benefits are not being spread evenly.

And at the bottom of the post, public health leaders analyse the likely impact of the end of the ministries for mental health, Indigenous health, disabilities and aged care.

In a timely publication, Indigenous mental health leaders Pat Dudgeon, Tom Calma, and Abigail Bray have urged this week for new approaches to address the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health gap, saying:.

Does Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott realise that a cause supported by his Pollie Pedal fund raiser — training in health promotion for Indigenous students — has been hit by the Newman Government's cuts?

And it offered opportunities for allied health workers to learn from Indigenous leaders in health and social justice.

Dudgeon, Indigenous National Mental Health Commissioner and leader of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP), made these recommendations in a keynote address to the Northern Territory Tony Fitzgerald Human Rights Awards in Darwin, on Larrikia Country.

Australian Government and Opposition party representatives, including the then Prime Minister and Opposition Leader, signed the Close the Gap Campaign's Close the Gap Statement of Intent in March 2008 at the Campaign's National Indigenous Health Equality Summit.

To ameliorate these tensions, in 1997, the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health (CRCATH) was developed to encourage researchers and Indigenous community leaders and organisations to work more collaboratively in their pursuit of improving Indigenous health outcoHealth (CRCATH) was developed to encourage researchers and Indigenous community leaders and organisations to work more collaboratively in their pursuit of improving Indigenous health outcohealth outcomes.31

Indigenous Australian authors continue to argue [including 6, 18, 62, 63], that the shifts required to effect meaningful changes in indigenous health are greater than simply teaching health workers some indigenous language or as indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [1Indigenous Australian authors continue to argue [including 6, 18, 62, 63], that the shifts required to effect meaningful changes in indigenous health are greater than simply teaching health workers some indigenous language or as indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [1indigenous health are greater than simply teaching health workers some indigenous language or as indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [1indigenous language or as indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [1indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [18, p. 88].

The Court will continue to interact with Indigenous communities and community leaders, including Aboriginal Legal Services, health liaison officers, Native Title groups and the like.

The Close the Gap Statement of Intent was signed on 20 March 2008 by Hon Kevin Rudd MP (then Prime Minister); Hon. Nicola Roxon MP (then Minister for Health and Ageing); Hon. Jenny Macklin MP (then Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs); and Dr Brendan Nelson MP (then Opposition Leader).

In addition, public servants who manage and implement Indigenous health programs are often underprepared for dealing with issues of cross-cultural engagement involved in program delivery.6 The frustration of Indigenous Australians with the deficient overall strategic view is evidenced by recent calls from Indigenous health and human rights leaders for a national commitment to achieving health equality within 25 years.13

Sir Mason Durie, one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most highly respected health leaders, talks about Māori experience in translating health research into health gains, including the critical importance for researchers to operate at the interface of Indigenous and Western biomedical knowledges.

Margo is working part - time in her role as Vice President of Indigenous Health for the Northern Health Authority and continues her role as Academic Leader of the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health, and as Professor in the College of Arts, Social and Human Sciences at UNBC.