Sentences with phrase «year life expectancy gap»

The Close the Gap coalition today presented the federal government and Opposition with a set of National Indigenous Health Equality Targets to address the 17 - year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

It's about addressing broader health issues like closing the 17 - year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and treating alcoholism and substance abuse.

They are around twice as likely to be hospitalised or die from injury; six times more likely to die from assault and four times more likely to die from suicide.1 Up to 15 % of the 10 - year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is attributed to mental health conditions, 2 and Indigenous young people aged 12 — 24 years are hospitalised for mental and behavioural disorders three times more often than non-Indigenous young people.3

Not exact matches

«If you look at the average life expectancy of an individual with schizophrenia versus someone in the general population, it's a 20 - year gap.

Men tend to be more adversely impacted by deprivation than women, with the gap in life expectancy at age 30 between the top and bottom one per cent of deprived neighbourhoods at 10.9 years for men and 8.4 years for women.

The COAG Reform Council's report Indigenous Reform 2012 - 13: five years of performance, shows that over five years, the national gap to non-Indigenous life expectancy narrowed by 0.8 years for men and just 0.1 years for women.

Women continue to outlive men by more than four years but the gender gap is closing — on average life expectancy for women increased by two months per year over the last decade, for men it was three months.

It should be driven by a shared imperative that it's in the national interest ie everyone's interest to close the 17 year gap in life expectancy.

There remains a roughly 10 - year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

«While Indigenous mortality rates have declined since 1998, the life expectancy gap is still around 10 years — an unacceptably wide gap, and this target is not on track to be met by 2031.»

By contrast Indigenous Australians have a life expectancy nearly 20 years less than other Australians — a huge gap.

It said freedom from racism and right to the highest attainable standard of health were fundamental human rights, and racism not only undermined health (noting a 17 - year gap in life expectancy) but the realisation of these rights for Indigenous Australians.

Although progress has been made in closing the gap, Indigenous Australians continue to experience a lower life expectancy with the current gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous estimated at 11.5 years for males and 9.7 years for females.

This includes in relation to the existing COAG target to close the (at least 10 year) gap in Indigenous life expectancy by 2030.

Perhaps the most famous and shocking gap in Australia's health outcomes is between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, where the ten - year life expectancy difference has remained, despite a polity that purports to have placed a high priority on the issue.

The new Australian government and all Australian Governments, through the Council of Australian Governments (or COAG), have agreed to a series of targets to be achieved over the next five to ten years to start the process to close the gap in health status and ultimately in life expectancy, as well as across a range of other measures.

Closing the Gap 2015 showed the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is 10.6 years for males and 9.5 years for femalGap 2015 showed the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is 10.6 years for males and 9.5 years for femalgap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is 10.6 years for males and 9.5 years for females.

It's been ten years since Australia's Close the Gap campaign was launched, calling for an end to inequalities in life expectancy and other indicators for Aboriginal and Torres St...

The Minister, who this year became Australia's first Indigenous member of a Federal Ministry, told the conference the acknowledgement of racism as a critical component for health in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan was a «huge step forward» and he believed the subsequent Implementation Plan has «sown seeds to tackle social and cultural determinants of health», which he said contributed to 31 per cent of the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Almost a decade after Closing the Gap targets were agreed by COAG, she said Australia was on track to meet just one of the seven (halving the gap in Year 12 attainment rates), with progress stagnating on life expectancy, infant mortality, education and employmeGap targets were agreed by COAG, she said Australia was on track to meet just one of the seven (halving the gap in Year 12 attainment rates), with progress stagnating on life expectancy, infant mortality, education and employmegap in Year 12 attainment rates), with progress stagnating on life expectancy, infant mortality, education and employment.

«We are making inroads into closing the gap in some areas of Aboriginal health but Aboriginal people still have a life expectancy 10 years less than non-Aboriginal people,» Mr Cooke said.

[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.

On the final day, at the Great Hall, Parliament House, the Prime Minister, Hon Kevin Rudd MP, the Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon MP, the Opposition Leader, Brendan Nelson, as well as the leaders of the Indigenous health peak bodies2and the mainstream health peak bodies3signed a historic Close the Gap Statement of Intent in which they agreed to work together to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Indigenous and non - Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.

In their Communiqué they stated: COAG agreed the 17 year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians must be closed.

COAG also agreed the 17 year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians must be closed.

Over 2005 - 2007 and 2010 - 2012 the life expectancy gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men closed by 0.8 years, and for women by only 0.1 years.

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.

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

On the final day, at the Great Hall, Parliament House, the Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, the Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, the Opposition Leader, the Hon. Dr Brendan Nelson MP, as well as leaders of Indigenous health peak bodies2 and the mainstream health peak bodies3 signed a historic Close the Gap Statement of Intent in which they agreed to work in partnership to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.

COAG agreed the 17 year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians must be closed.