Eye health
Life before the drought
(1999)
Julie Weekes
Acrylic on archer paper
This artwork is provided by the Edith Cowan University Art Collection.
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The painting:
Basically the painting tells the viewer that life is controlled by the change of the environment. This change has taken place within thousands of years, yet man within an eye blink can cause the same change in the land for the sake of development.
The artist:
My mother is fifth generation Australian of European descent and my father a Torres Strait Islander. I grew up knowing I was an Islander but had no knowledge of my family or culture.
Policies and strategies
References and links (when available) to policies and strategies that address the eye health of Indigenous peoples are provided here. Some of the links relate primarily to policies and strategies for the general Australian population. Online Indigenous-specific information is limited.
Indigenous
2004
Department of Health and Ageing (2004)
Australian government response to the review of the implementation
of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye
Health Program.
Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
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report
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website: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Kaplan-Myrth N (2004)
Political visions: blindness prevention as a case study
of community-government relations in Aboriginal health.
(Discussion paper No 10)
Melbourne: VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community Development
Unit
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 168KB)
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website: VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community Development
Unit
Taylor V, Ewald D, Liddle H, Warchivker I (2004)
Review of the implementation of the National Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Program.
Canberra: Centre for Remote Health
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report
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website: Centre for Remote Health
General
2006
Communicable Disease Network Australia (2006)
Guidelines for the public health management of trachoma in Australia.
Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View report (PDF - 951KB)
Contains information relating to Indigenous people throughout the report
View website: Department of Health and Ageing
2005
Access Economics (2005)
Investing in sight: strategic interventions to prevent
vision loss in Australia.
Melbourne: Eye Research Australia
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report (PDF - 2.33MB - large file warning!)
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overview (PDF - 651KB)
View website:
Centre for Eye Research Australia
Commonwealth of Australia (2005)
Eye health in Australia: A background paper to the National
Framework for Action to Promote Eye Health and Prevent Avoidable
Blindness and Vision Loss, endorsed by the Australian Health
Ministers’ Conference, November 2005.
Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia
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report (PDF - 676KB)
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website: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Commonwealth of Australia (2005)
National framework for action to promote eye health and
prevent avoidable blindness and vision loss.
Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia
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report (PDF - 221KB)
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website: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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