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- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Northern Territory
- Australian Capital Territory
- Tasmania (currently no information available)
General overviews
Anderson, I.
Overview of Indigenous health status in Australia.
24 September 1997, Shortened version of speech given by Dr Ian Anderson, Medical Adviser to the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services, Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services, to the World Health Organization's Regional Committee for the Western Pacific.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
National Health Survey: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander results, Australia 2001.
This report details the Indigenous component of the National Health Survey (NHS), 2001 conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Topics include self assessed health; long term health conditions; health related actions and lifestyle; other health risk factors and women's health.
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National Health Survey: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander results. Australia 1995 (Summary of findings).
This publication presents selected data about the health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians from the 1995 National Health Survey (NHS). Topics include measures of health status, health related actions taken, and lifestyle factors which may influence health.
Plain language summaries
Written by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and prepared for the internet by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.
The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. ABS Cat No. 4704.0 AIHW Cat No. IHW2. This summary provides up-to-date statistics on Indigenous health and welfare.
Health of Indigenous Australians. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey. 1994. ABS Cat. No. 4395.0 This summarises the answers given by Indigenous people to the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey.
Self-assessed health status, Indigenous Australians. ABS Cat No. 4707.0 An occasional paper by Joan Cunningham, Beverly Sibthorpe and Ian Anderson. This summary gives information on how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults described their health in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey (NATSIS).
1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey: Australia's Indigenous youth. ABS Cat No. 4197.0 This summary presents results from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey (NATSIS) with an emphasis on Indigenous youth.
Australian Department of Health and Aged Care
In Fair Health: Part 2 - Equity in Practice (1991)
Enough to Make You Sick - Chapter 6 (1992) Aboriginal health inequalities
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Thomson N, ed. (2001)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health at the end of the 20th century.
Perth: Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2004)
Australia's health 2004: the ninth biennial report of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
To enable wider distribution of information on the health of Indigenous Australians, the AIHW has kindly given the HealthInfoNet permission to reproduce the sub-section on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
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View media release (AIHW 22 June 2004)
View Australia's health 2004 highlights (PDF)
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Australia's health 1996describes the continuing low health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, along with some gains that have occurred. View Section 1.5.1 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - an Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet prepared excerpt from Australia's health 1996. |
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Australia's health trends 1995 includes a chapter on Indigenous health: mortality and survival; perinatal and infant health; chronic diseases; and population trends. Adobe Acrobat is needed to view this document (available at site).
Australian Journal of Rural Health
Hunter P (2001)
Editorial.
Australian Journal of Rural Health;9:103-104.
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Australian Medical Association
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Looks at disparities in health and social factors; life expectancy; trends in Indigenous health; major causes of excess mortality; international comparisons; and where to now.
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care (2001)
Government response to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Indigenous Health - 'Health is Life'.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care.
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The report is available on the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) website.
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs
Health is life: report on the Inquiry into Indigenous Health. May 2000
A three year Inquiry into Indigenous Health has now been completed. The Committee tabled the final report on June 5. The report emphasises the need for Indigenous involvement at all levels of the health system and highlights the need for different funding models to achieve long-term improvements in health status.
Included in the report are 35 recommendations that address issues surrounding:
coordination, planning and delivery of health services;
Indigenous health services and community control;
housing and infrastructure services;
cultural, educational and employment issues as they relate to health;
health professional issues;
research and data collection;
and other important health issues.
The report is available in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free of charge from Adobe's website
Human Rights and the Equal Opportunity Commission
The Human Rights and the Equal Opportunity Commission provides statistics on Indigenous issues, such as population, health, education, juvenile justice, deaths in custody and removal of children.
Medical Journal of Australia
Bauert P, McMaugh E, Martin CM, Smylie JK (2003)
Indigenous health: chronically inadequate responses to damning statistics [letter].
Medical Journal of Australia;178(5):246
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Ring IT, Brown N (2002)
Indigenous health: chronically inadequate responses to damning statistics.
Medical Journal of Australia;177(11/12):629-631
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Thomas DP (2004)
The upsurge of interest in Indigenous health in the 1950s and 1960s: Barry Christophers' letters to the MJA editor about Indigenous health.
Medical Journal of Austalia;180(10):521-523
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Zhao Y, Guthridge S, Magnus A, Vos T (2004)
Burden of disease and injury in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations in the Northern Territory.
Medical Journal of Australia;180(10):498-502.
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National Rural Health Alliance
National Rural Health Alliance (2003)
Rural and remote health papers 1991-2003 - National Rural Health Alliance
Deakin: National Rural Health Alliance
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Oxford University Press
Couzos S, Murray R (2003)
Aboriginal primary health care: an evidence-based approach.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press
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Thomson N, ed. (2003)
The health of Indigenous Australians.
South Melbourne: Oxford University Press
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Radio National
Couzos S (2004)
Aboriginal Health.
Canberra: Radio National Perspectives
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Smallwood, G. & Kotiw, M.
The relevance of human rights to health status in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Reprinted from Health and Human Rights Vol.2 No. 2 1997.
Overviews of Indigenous health status by State
New South Wales
ABC Australian Health Map
National Aboriginal and Community Controlled Organisation members for NSW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Overview of Aboriginal health status in NSW
New South Wales Health Department
2000 edition of the Chief Health Officer's Report
This report is available in a number of formats including HTML, frames/javascript, and downloadable with Adobe Acrobat (available at site). The frames version allows you to choose a health issue (Health of Aboriginal peoples), and to search within this on a wide range of issue specific topics.
Southern New South Wales Public Health Unit
Health issues and health status indicators
Victoria
ABC Australian Health Map
Victorian Government Department of Human Services (2003)
Department of Human Services Gippsland Aboriginal action plan 2003-2004.
Traralgon, Victoria: Victorian Government Department of Human Services
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Queensland
ABC Australian Health Map
Queensland Government's Office of Rural Health
National Aboriginal and Community Controlled Organisation members for Queensland
Australian Bureau of Statistics - plain language summaries
Written by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and prepared for the internet by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.
1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey: Torres Strait Islanders, Queensland
ABS catalogue number 4179.3. This publication describes and analyses the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey (NATSIS) for Torres Strait Islanders living in the Torres Strait, and those Torres Strait Islanders living in Queensland.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Overview of Aboriginal health status in Queensland.
Draft report
Draft report: publication details currently unavailable
Wis way?: a report of mainland Torres Strait Islanders access to health service providers: draft report.
View draft report (PDF - 3.5MB - large file warning!)
Queensland Health
Health of Queensland's Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Status Report.
This information paper presents a brief overview of the current health status of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Not available on the Internet
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Western Australia
ABC Australian Health Map
Western Australia State information
National Aboriginal and Community Controlled Organisation members for WA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Overview of Aboriginal health status in Western Australia.
Health Department of Western Australia
Health and ill-health among special populations (Aboriginal health).
Looks at fertility and pregnancy; birthweight; infant and perinatal mortality; mortality; hospitalisation; and health risk factors including diet, relative weight, tobacco and alcohol, attitudes to health, breastfeeding, access to health services and distance.
Socio-economic disadvantage.
Looks at the health differentials between Aborigines and non-Aborigines
South Australia
ABC Australian Health Map
South Australia State information
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Overview of Aboriginal health status in South Australia
Northern Territory
ABC Australian Health Map
Northern Territory State information
National Aboriginal and Community Controlled Organisation members for the Northern Territory
Ah Chee D. (2001)
"Closing the gap - towards a fairer Australia".
Alice Springs: ACOSS-NTCOSS Election Forum.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Overview of Aboriginal health status in the Northern Territory
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress
Aboriginal health in the Northern Territory
Territory Health Services
A brief overview of NT Aboriginal health status
Territory Health Services PHSU (1998)
The Aboriginal Public Health Strategy and Implementation Guide 1997 - 2002.
Darwin: Territory Health Services
A model for understanding Aboriginal health
Tropical Health Working Group of the Top End Division of General Practice (2003)
Tropical health in the Top End: an introduction for health practitioners.
Darwin: Top End Division of General Practice
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Australian Capital Territory
ABC Australian Health Map
Brisk, N., McConell, J., & Peterson, M. (1997).
The Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the ACT.
Epidemiology Unit, Population Health Group, ACT Department of Health and Community Care, Canberra.
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