Sentences with phrase «ending health inequality»

More than 150,000 Australians will declare their support today for ending health inequality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other Australians, with a record number of schools, community groups, health services, businesses and government offices hosting over 1,548 events around the country to mark National Close the Gap Day on 19 March 2015.

In an article for the Institute of Welsh Affairs, Welsh Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for a Healthy Wales Cllr Bablin Molik highlights the importance of ending health inequalities in Wales.

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«This means following through on the current national health inequalities target on infant mortality and life expectancy which runs to the end of 2011 acknowledges the challenge posed by a social gradient - the lower a person's social position, the worse his or her health.»

A world - first University of Melbourne — led study into the health and well - being of more than 154 million Indigenous and tribal people globally has revealed the extent of work that needs to be done if the UN is to meet its 2030 goals of ending poverty and inequality.

However, its proposals did not include any additional funding for the majority of schools, and proposed new «Mental Health Support Teams» could only reach a quarter of the country by the end of 2022/23, running the risk of greater inequality for young people.

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To that end, the symposium will hear from Dr Laia Becares, from the University of Manchester, who is leading a three year research project into health inequalities experienced by ethnic minorities in the UK, US and New Zealand (NZ), which has looked specifically at the impact of both maternal and neighbourhood experiences of racism.

This was the people power that we used that leverage to help secure political support and we've been very successful in laying the foundation that will, it is hoped, bring the national shame of health inequality to an end by 2030.

This is the generation who has taken on the responsibility to end Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality.

The Close the Gap Campaign has called on the Government to ensure this is the generation that ends Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality.

I believe that the COAG commitments, the signing of the Close the Gap Statement of Intent and the development of the Indigenous Health Equality Targets mark a watershed in the history of Indigenous health: the moment when we dared to take our dreams of a future in which Indigenous and non - Indigenous Australians stand as equals in terms of health and life expectation and began to turn them into reality; the moment when we said «enough is enough» and began to set in place an ambitious, yet realistic, plan to bring Indigenous health inequality to an end within our lifeHealth Equality Targets mark a watershed in the history of Indigenous health: the moment when we dared to take our dreams of a future in which Indigenous and non - Indigenous Australians stand as equals in terms of health and life expectation and began to turn them into reality; the moment when we said «enough is enough» and began to set in place an ambitious, yet realistic, plan to bring Indigenous health inequality to an end within our lifehealth: the moment when we dared to take our dreams of a future in which Indigenous and non - Indigenous Australians stand as equals in terms of health and life expectation and began to turn them into reality; the moment when we said «enough is enough» and began to set in place an ambitious, yet realistic, plan to bring Indigenous health inequality to an end within our lifehealth and life expectation and began to turn them into reality; the moment when we said «enough is enough» and began to set in place an ambitious, yet realistic, plan to bring Indigenous health inequality to an end within our lifehealth inequality to an end within our lifetimes.

To that end we founded a Steering Committee to guide the development of the Campaign and worked with a coalition of 40 or so organisations all committed to bringing Indigenous health inequality to an end.

The commitment of Australia's governments to work in partnership with Indigenous peoples and their representatives to plan for Indigenous health equality by 2030 marks the start of an ambitious, but ultimately achievable, process to bring Indigenous health inequality to an end within our lifetimes.

[2] This is the generation that has taken on the responsibility to end Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality.

Since the release of the 2005 Social Justice Report, a coalition of organisations and individuals has worked for the adoption of its recommendations and an end to Indigenous health inequality in Australia: