Organisations
The following organisations have been organised to facilitate ease of access to the wide range of Indigenous health promotion-related information available on the Internet. If you know of a site that should be included here, or if you find any broken links please let us know.
- Western Australian government
- Australian government
- Peak Indigenous community controlled services
- Universities, research centres, and related bodies (WA)
- Other organisations – Western Australia
- Other organisations – National
For a more comprehensive list of the range of Indigenous health-related organisations in Western Australia, view the HealthInfoNet Western Australian Organisations webpage
Western Australian government
BreastScreen WA
BreastScreen WA provides a free high quality, screening mammography service
for women in WA.
View website: BreastScreen
WA
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander section
Department of Health Western Australia - Population Health Division
The Population Health Division aims to protect, promote and restore
people's health. The Health Promotion section fulfils the responsibilities
of the Population Health Division in the area of non-communicable disease
control
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Health Promotion section
Office of Aboriginal Health
In 1996, the Department of Health in Western Australia established the Office of Aboriginal Health. Its charter is to work in partnership with Aboriginal communities and health service providers to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) people receive culturally appropriate health care that meets their needs. To achieve this objective, the Office of Aboriginal Health works within government to manage the financial, physical and human resources necessary to improve the health care and health status of all Aboriginal people
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Australian government
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH)
The long-term strategy of the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Health (OATSIH) is to improve the access of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples to comprehensive primary health care services. The
aim is to provide coordinated clinical care, population health and health
promotion activities to facilitate illness prevention, early intervention
and effective disease management. This strategy is firmly based on the principle
of working in partnership with the Aboriginal community controlled health
sector
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website
Peak Indigenous community controlled services
Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA)
The Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA) replaces the Western Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation as a the peak body for 19 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) in WA. AHCWA will replace WAACCHO as the full member of the Joint Planning Forum with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the State and Commonwealth Departments of Health
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National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) is the national peak Aboriginal health body representing Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services throughout Australia. An Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) is a primary health care service initiated and operated by the local Aboriginal community to deliver holistic, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate health care to the community which controls it (through a locally elected Board of Management)
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Universities, research centres and related bodies
Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health (CUCRH)
CUCRH promotes the health of rural and remote Western Australian communities through education, professional development and research. It achieves this by encouraging and improving rural and remote health training in medicine, nursing and allied health teaching programs, and raising the profile of rural teaching, research and practice in academic departments.
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Marr Mooditj Foundation
The Marr Mooditj Foundation is a college committed to the education and training of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander people, to empower them to competently deliver and manage health care and community services programs in a culturally appropriate manner to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community
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Other organisations - Western Australia
Family Planning Western Australia (FPWA)
FPWA (formerly Family Planning WA) has provided sexual health
services, information and training in Western Australia for over 30 years.
FPWA is committed to excellence in sexual health care, affirming that all
people are sexual throughout life, have a right to information and choice,
and that acceptance of sexuality is integral to health
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Indigenous Sexual Health Network
Healthway
Healthway's Health Promotion Program provides grants to organisations engaged in health promotion. Health promotion organisations and community groups, "may apply for grants to fund new approaches to health promotion and illness prevention that will change community attitudes and behaviour and create environments in which good health is encouraged". Healthway's Strategic Plan 2004-2007 identified the health of Indigenous people as an area of special focus and high priority.
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Other organisations – National
Australian Health Promoting Schools Association (AHPSA)
AHPSA initiates and supports health promotion in schools,
and endorses a broad view of health consistent with the Ottawa Charter for
Health Promotion. The Association endeavours to advocate and strengthen
participation in school health activities and policy development, and encourages
collaboration among agencies, professional associations, government departments
and student and parent groups
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Australian Health Promotion Association
The Australian Health Promotion Association is the professional association specifically for people involved in the practice, research and study of health promotion. The Health Promotion Association's major objectives include providing opportunities for members' professional development, increasing public and professional awareness of the roles and functions of health promotion practitioners, and contributing to discussion, debate and decision making on health promotion policy and programs
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Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet takes a broad view of Indigenous health, along the lines of that recommended by the National Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Party, and expanded by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. The mission of the HealthInfoNet is to contribute to improving the health of Australia's Indigenous people by making relevant, high quality knowledge and information easily accessible. This Internet site is the main means of disseminating the knowledge and information, much of which is generated by internal research
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View Western Australian State webpage
View Health Promotion webpage
Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Knowledge Network
The Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Knowledge Network is dedicated
to improving the health of Indigenous Australians. The Network has agreed
to ensure that its foundation is to support and provide information to communities;
become a reference group in Indigenous health promotion; convey positive
work that is being carried out to promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
health; articulate the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health promotion
role; influence public policy and support partnership models; continue to
work to build sustainable partnerships with mainstream organisations in
health promotion; encourage members to share and reflect on best practice
in Indigenous health promotion, establish standards for education on Indigenous
health and health promotion; and, inform professionals of Indigenous health
and health promotion standards
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Centre for Health Promotion – South Australia
The CHP was established in 2001 to enhance the Women's and Children's Hospital's health promotion efforts. The website is a result of the Centre for Health Promotion at the Women's and Children's Hospital; Children, Youth and Women's Health Service in South Australia. The CHP supports health promotion in the broader community in partnership with a range of organisations for population groups, and works in partnership with Indigenous health workers, educators, parents and students on Indigenous health issues by providing support and training of workers in Aboriginalcommunities. Other ongoing strategies include the review, development and promotion of curriculum resources that promote Aboriginal health and celebrate cultural identity
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Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health Promotion – New South Wales
The establishment of the Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health Promotion provides a prime opportunity to enhance the delivery of more effective and sustainable health promotion programs for Aboriginal people and their communities in NSW. The Centre aims to improve the effectiveness of Aboriginal health promotion (better practice) in NSW through its key functions and responsibilities by a clearinghouse/website function that will gather, review and disseminate case studies of good practice from local programs; providing training opportunities for the Aboriginal health promotion workforce; strengthening the abilities and confidences of local communities and Aboriginal health workers to solve local health issues through effective program management
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Public Health Association of Australia
The Public Health Association of Australia Inc (PHAA) provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information on public health. The Association is also involved in advocacy for public health policy, development, research and training. PHAA undertakes project and conference work on issues such as immunisation, public health workforce and training and knowledge development in health promotion, and reports on these topics and many other are available from the national secretariat
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View Western Australian branch
View Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander section