Sentences with phrase «life expectancy gap within»

at the December 2007 Council of Australian Governments meeting where Australian governments committed to closing the life expectancy gap within a generation, and halving the mortality gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non - Indigenous children under 5 - years of age.

This is intended to contribute to addressing the COAG - agreed closing the gap targets for Indigenous Australians, closing the life expectancy gap within a generation and halving the mortality gap for children under five within a decade.

The project enables reporting against the COAG target «to close the life expectancy gap within a generation».

«The agreement to move forward with a long - term action health plan to close the Indigenous life expectancy gap within a generation is a major step.

The positive outcomes that would flow from increased participation by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the health workforce are dramatic, and include closing the life expectancy gap within a generation.

The Government has set national targets across six areas, including closing the life expectancy gap within a generation.

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A Ted Talk by British researcher Richard Wilkinson, for example, focuses on the harm to society that results from economic inequality — notably the gaps within (not between) societies, which includes life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, crime, teenage births, obesity and mental illness.

The Campaign's goal is to raise the health and life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to that of the non-Indigenous population within a generation: to close the gap by 2030.

Perhaps the new proposed Authority may now reconsider the original recommendations of the review report and seek to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country access to the broader mainstream health resources, which is the only way we will really achieve the desired results of closing the gap in life expectancy rates within a generation.

Closing the gap on life expectancy within a generation and halving the disparity in unemployment are not within reach and numeracy and literacy show mixed improvements, according to the Prime Minister's 2016 update.

Setting six «Closing the Gap» Targets, including to achieve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy equality within a generation, and to halve the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander under - fives mortality rate gap within a decade; Gap» Targets, including to achieve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy equality within a generation, and to halve the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander under - fives mortality rate gap within a decade; gap within a decade; and

Now the Australian Government's 2007 commitment to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancy within a generation was welcome.

[62] Although within the margin for error, [63] this was taken at face value by the ABS as evidence of a slight reduction in the life expectancy gap of 0.8 years for men and 0.1 years for women since 2005 - 07.

The campaign is working towards a major goal — to close the gap in health and life expectancy outcomes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has set a target of closing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other Australians within a generation (see Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2011, available at www.pc.gov.au).

the 17 year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians must be closed within a generation; and

The campaign's goal is to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.