Sentences with phrase «health equality»
"Health equality" means that every person, regardless of their background or where they live, has the same opportunity to access and receive good health care services. Full definition
With this in mind, the campaign's aim is motivate and empower governments to take real, measurable human rights based action to achieve Indigenous health equality by 2030.
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His programs aim to close the gap in health equality for Indigenous peoples, particularly in relation to ear and hearing conditions, and preventing subsequent disease or permanent disability.
These have enormous potential to contribute to the achievement of Indigenous health equality by 2030.
This campaign would address this failure by linking existing commitments to adequate funding and resources and setting the goal of health equality within a 25 - year period.
The goal of health equality and equality of opportunity should be supported by targets and benchmarks over the short and medium term.
This means that governments must take steps that are deliberate, concrete and targeted as clearly as possible towards health equality and equality of opportunity in relation to primary health care and health infrastructure.
It does this because constitutional change should be seen as an important part of securing health equality for our peoples.
The fourth requirement, is that we integrate targets for health equality into policy and programs across all governments.
Throughout the year I will be calling on all sectors of Australian society to express their support for commitments to achieving Indigenous health equality within a generation.
We can't achieve health equality by treating this as an issue solely for government to address, or solely for Indigenous peoples.
It is vital that these elements are put into place as soon as possible if we are to achieve Indigenous health equality by 2030.
We must as a nation achieve health equality for our people.
That the necessary housing, water supplies and waste systems to support the achievement of health equality are in place in Indigenous communities by 2018.
This includes the creation of a generational Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality plan with ambitious yet realistic targets supported by a partnership between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their representatives and Australian governments.
Thus, for example, in relation to a national health equality planning forum our bottom line is that an Indigenous Australian co-chairs this with a government representative.
Closing the gap in health equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians is an agreed national priority.
Commissioner Gooda and Ms Parker said closing the gap in health equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians is an agreed national priority.
I am excited by the potential of the NHLF to provide a strong advocacy voice in advancing health equality for our peoples.
The targets were developed to support the achievement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality over many areas.
Government must place Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs at the heart of their agenda, recognising health equality as a national priority.
«The national architecture of health equality efforts — the Closing the Gap Strategy — has suffered from unrealised potential, and an unravelling in recent years.»
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Statistically Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are leagues behind non-Indigenous Australians where health equality is concerned.
Together with strategies to address social inequalities and determinants of health, this provides the necessary platform to realise health equality by 2031
«However it is essential that these efficiencies are not achieved at the expense of valuable programs and initiatives that build an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce and contribute to achieving health equality more broadly.»
Turning around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality requires a concerted national effort over years.
In March 2008, the campaign held a national Indigenous health equality summit, at which the then Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, other key ministers, and then Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson, signed the historic Close the Gap Statement of intent that commits the Australian Government to developing a National Health Equality Plan supported by the partnership I have already referred to.
«Health inequality has been a stain on our nation for far too long, but this generation has the opportunity to remove the stain and deliver health equality for Australia's First peoples.»
The necessary leadership of the Federal Government in closing the gap does not lessen the responsibility of the States and Territories to do all they can to bring about health equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
It is a well known fact that a large gap in health equality exists in Australia.
Second, it embodies a human right to health - based blueprint for achieving health equality referred to hereon as the «close the gap approach».
Chronic diseases, and in particular cardiovascular disease, are the biggest single killers of Indigenous peoples and an area where the Indigenous and non-Indigenous health equality gap is most apparent.
It is a challenge to all Australian governments to commit to achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality within a generation.
It also sets out a campaign for achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality within a generation.
«Closing the gap in health equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians is an agreed national priority, but governments are failing to meet nearly every key measure.
Whatever steps are taken towards health equality should empower us as Indigenous peoples and organisations, and not — as in the case of the Northern Territory intervention — make the mistake of presuming that the end always justifies the means.
National Minority Health Month is observed every year in April to call attention to the health disparities that persist among racial and ethnic minority populations and the ways in which society can help advance health equality.
The Close the Gap Campaign partners have developed targets to support the achievement of Indigenous health equality over many areas.
«Together with strategies to address social inequalities and determinants of health, this provides the necessary platform to recognise health equality by 2031.»
The longer - term prospect (i.e. by around 2030) is that spending on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health will begin to reach parity with the non-Indigenous population as health equality is achieved.
The campaign co-chairs said they expect the Government to grasp the opportunity to lead on closing the gap in health equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians.
The gap — the Indigenous health equality gap — can be closed, and closed in our lifetimes.
Targets are important because they help maintain a focus on the achievement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality by 2030.
Accordingly, I have chosen to make the following recommendations to achieve long term commitments to the goal of health equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within a generation.