Sentences with phrase «controlled health services»

Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services must be involved in health planning at the local and regional level with the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), and State / Territory NACCHO Affiliates at national and state and territory levels respectively.

Through these Steering Committee members» internal processes, the Campaign ensured it had significant support among both Indigenous health professionals (specifically, doctors, nurses, dentists and, later, psychologists) and the Aboriginal community controlled health services.

HREOC urges the Committee to recognise that consultations for partnership with Aboriginal community controlled health services must be followed - up by a realistic assessment of the inputs and approaches necessary to achieve those successful partnerships, and by the implementation of resources to match those levels of need.

only 38 % of Commonwealth funded Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services have a dedicated mental health or social and emotional well being worker.

[46] Panaretto K, Wenitong M, Button S and Ring I, «Aboriginal community controlled health services: leading the way in primary care» (2014) 200 (11) Medical Journal of Australia, 200 (11) 649.

These are called «Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services».

Aboriginal community controlled health services must be involved in health planning at the local and regional level with the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, and State / Territory NACCHO Affiliates at national and jurisdictional levels respectively.

Such a strategy could also impact enormously on the capacity of the Aboriginal community controlled health services.

It was also noted that there are examples already of successful relationships between Australian governments and Aboriginal community controlled health services at the state / territory level.

It is achieved but by being committed and helping sustain the function of our Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services,» Ms Turner said.

Establish partnership arrangements between the Australian Government and state and territory governments and between Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and mainstream services providers at the regional level for the delivery of appropriate health services.

A national peak Aboriginal health body representing Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services throughout Australia.

Governments should also commit to continue to work to achieve improved access to mainstream services as well as continued support for community controlled health services with the full participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

For example, NACCHO represents over 140 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services across Australia, each governed by elected community representatives.

There was consensus that a national body support and complement the work of Indigenous community based healing initiatives, such as the Indigenous controlled health services.

increasing resources to Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services to meet the increasing mental health and social and emotional well being needs placed upon the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care sector.

Unpublished literature review commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health, 2013 as cited in Mackey, P, Boxall, A-M, Partel K (2014) «The relative effectiveness of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services compared with mainstream health service», Deeble Institute Evidence Brief, No 12.

it is important to build on current structure and breadth of knowledge, in particular that of the Aboriginal community controlled health services; and

Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services should be the preferred services for this enhanced, targeted response.

To supporting and developing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community - controlled health services in urban, rural and remote areas in order to achieve lasting improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing.

There was broad commitment amongst stakeholders to the continued development of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS), and strong recognition of the rights of Aboriginal people to cultural safety in accessing mental health and social and emotional well - being programs and services.

In the interview, Mrs Weston calls for better funding for community controlled health services, and greater recognition and support for Aboriginal Health Workers.

Design, setting and participants: The Talking About The Smokes project surveyed 2522 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from communities served by 34 Aboriginal community - controlled health services and one community in the Torres Strait, using quota sampling, from April 2012 to October 2013.

In comparison, studies on community control by First Nations groups in British Columbia, Canada, suggest a direct correlation between increased cultural continuity within First Nation communities and reduced suicide rates.17 These are examples of health improvements for indigenous peoples that appear to have resulted from equality and partnership between the «mainstream» health services and indigenous community - controlled health services and programs.

In 2012 — 2013, 42 % of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population aged 15 years or older were daily smokers — 2.6 times the age - standardised prevalence among other Australians.19 Australian governments aimed to halve the Indigenous Australian smoking rate by 2018 (from the 2009 baseline) through a range of Indigenous tobacco control initiatives.20 Funded by the Australian Government in support of these national initiatives, the TATS project was conducted mainly through Aboriginal community - controlled health services (ACCHSs).

Design: The TATS project is a collaboration between research institutions and Aboriginal community - controlled health services (ACCHSs) and their state and national representative bodies.

The Talking About The Smokes (TATS) project surveyed 2522 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people using a quota sampling design in the communities served by 34 Aboriginal community - controlled health services (ACCHSs) and one community in the Torres Strait, and has been described elsewhere.8, 9 Briefly, the 35 sites were selected based on the geographic distribution of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population by state or territory and remoteness.

Gidgee Healing is the trading name of Mount Isa Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services Limited, a public company limited by guarantee and registered under the Corporations Act 2001.

We have over 150 Community Controlled Health Services, owned and run co-operatively by local Aboriginal communities.

NACCHO is the national peak body representing 143 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) across the country on Aboriginal health and wellbeing issues.

I note that this may place additional burdens on Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services.

accept the holistic definition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and the importance of Aboriginal community controlled health services in achieving lasting improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status;

Reports and studies have found that community controlled health services can offer: 239

There should be continued support for Aboriginal community controlled health services.

The study, Talking About the Smokes, led by a national partnership that includes NACCHO, interviewed 522 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members in 35 locations, as well as 645 staff of local Aboriginal community controlled health services.

In 2001, while Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people held 67 % of positions in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, 98 % of the doctors and 87 % of the nurses were non - Indigenous.266 Significant attention is needed in relation to the recruitment and retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals.

However, there was no complementary systematic focus on building primary health service capacity according to need, particularly through the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and truly shifting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health to a preventive footing rather than responding «after the event» to health crisis.

NACCHO is the national peak body representing 143 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) across the country on Aboriginal health and well - being issues.

For example, The Overburden Report showed that inflexible funding arrangements characterised by complexity and fragmentation hinder the delivery of primary health care by Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services.

These findings are elaborated in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and NACCHO's 2013 Healthy for Life Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services Report Card.

A key requirement is Commonwealth seed funding for the provision of satellite and outreach Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) that Indigenous people will access, and which provide the comprehensive services needed to fill the service gaps, boost use of MBS and PBS services to more equitable levels, and reduce preventable admissions and deaths.

«Today's report supports Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services as the preferred model for primary health care and that's because our Services work.»

The QUMAX Program aims to improve quality use of medicines and contribute to positive health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, of any age, who present at participating Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHOs).

Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) came into being because of the inability of mainstream health services to engage Aboriginal communities with their services.

The Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) members deliver culturally appropriate comprehensive primary health care to their communities.

We recently signed an agreement with Australia's national peak body representing over 140 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO).

So, for those three reasons, NACCHO continues to call on the Australian Government to invest in the expansion of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, to reach more people living in isolated areas, and to provide more care options for women, including mental health and psychology services.

There are many gaps in our Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and their holistic approach in delivering comprehensive primary care to our people, no matter where they live.

This is why Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services are essential to closing the health gap.

«Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services should be the preferred model for investment as our own Aboriginal Health Services are best placed to deliver primary health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in all settings.»