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Indigenous Peoples of Australia: Health
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1st National Indigenous Male Health Convention - Ross River Homestead via Alice Springs, Central Australia 4th & 5th October 1999
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Australian Indigenous Doctors Association - "the membership of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association is comprised of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical students and graduates from across the country"
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Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet - covers Australia and provides links to relevant resources, documents, and organizations, highly recommended
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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
- "a national and international publication which has been in circulation throughout Australia since 1977. It is published six times a year and has a broad range of readership including Indigenous communities throughout Australia, tertiary instituions, libraries, primary and secondary schools, correctional facilities, policy makers and politicians"
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in Queensland
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Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia
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Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (South
Australia) - "To ensure the development of effective programs to reduce harm related to substance misuse in Aboriginal communities, in such a way as to:
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promote and foster pride, dignity, identity and achievement in Aboriginal society, and
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advocate and actively pursue the philosophy and principles of Aboriginal spiritual, cultural, social, economic and political re-empowerment, self-determination and self- management.
This mission will be carried out principally as an information and advisory centre for the Aboriginal community, the wider community and to relevant professionals and institutions, on substance misuse issues"
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Aboriginal Health in Victoria - A draft policy and background paper prepared for consideration by the Victorian Branch of the Public Health Association of Australia
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Aboriginal Health Provider Net
- a website for providers and consumers in Adelaide, South Australia
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Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Regional Centres - " to develop an infrastructure that would enable the provision of a culturally appropriate, sustainable, emotional and social well being system for the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communitites. There currently exists twelve specialised Regional Training Centres in Australia located at New South Wales, Northen Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia"
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Australian Bureau of Statistics: "Mortality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 1997" - provides access to a PDF file (357KB) of this report issued on 17 April 2000 - you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download here for free
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Central Australian Aboriginal
Congress, Inc. - founded in 1973, "Congress works for the health of Aboriginal people by: providing effective, efficient, and appropriate primary health care for Aboriginal people; educating Aboriginal Health Workers; assisting other Aboriginal communities to take control of their health matters; being a political advocate for our people, and speaking out on matters affecting our health"
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Central
Australian and Barkley Aboriginal Health Worker Association - "In 1995 Central Australian primary health care practitioners and community controlled organisations successfully obtained funding from the Commonwealth in 1995 to establish the Primary Heath Care Network for Aboriginal Health Workers in the Central and Barkley Regions. This Network slowly evolved into the first fully independent and functioning AHW Association in Australia. We have been strong advocates for the more remote AHW and for looking at AHW industrial and training needs"
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Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses
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Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health
- located in the Northern Territory of Australia, the Centre aims "to provide a cross cultural framework for strategic research leading to evidence based improvements in education and health practice, to a more highly skilled health workforce, to more effective health services, and to reconciliation between Aboriginal and Western perspectives on health"
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Culture
Training Manual for Medical Workers in Aboriginal Communities (Australia)
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Danila Dilba Medical Service - an Aboriginal health organisation providing free medical service for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of the Darwin, Palmerston and Rural areas
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Indigenous Australian Alcohol and Other Drugs Database
- bibliographic database, fully annotated and keyworded, plus project database, fully summarized and keyworded - excellent resource
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Far East Gippsland Health & Support Service
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Indigenous Health Cultural Exchange Group
- "At last, a gang of students from the University of Queensland have formed together into network of spirited people who are willing to make cross cultural connections in an attempt to face some of the health issues (and all those issues intimately related to health) experienced by the Indigenous peoples of Queensland and Australia"
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Indigenous Health Network (Australia) - to facilitate research, dissemination of knowledge, exchange of information and support for projects in indigenous health and indigenous knowledge in community health
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Kalgoorlie Bega Garnbirringu Health Service - "provides a holistic method of service provision in the health area offering clinical services, health promotion and health education"
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Kimberly Aboriginal Medical Services Council - "a health resource body for a group of independent Aboriginal community owned health services. In KAMSC, the individual services pool shared functions including public health program development, political representation, corporate services, Aboriginal health promotion, central
purchasing of pharmaceuticals, Aboriginal health worker training and staff recruitment"
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Koori Health Unit - located with the State Government of Victoria, the web-site provides an insight into alternative ways and means of public health as developed by the Indigenous Peoples of Victoria (and perhaps Australia?)
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Arthur E. Mills Oration 1998 - by Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue, CBE, AM on "First world nation; third world health: Aboriginal health in Australia"
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National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization (NACCHO) - "the national peak body on Aboriginal health and has a membership in excess of 100 organisations and peak affiliate bodies in all states and territories. Apart from providing a variety of services to its members, NACCHO represents the interests of Aboriginal community controlled health services at the national level"
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Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - this is the official web-site of the Office, which is a unit within the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care
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Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service - "The Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service Incorporated was established in 1992. The Health Service currently serves a population of approximately 900 Aboriginal people in the Port Lincoln area and another 200 spread across the Lower Eyre Peninsula as far north as Wudinna on the West Coast of South Australia.
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Promoting the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: Case studies and principles of good practice - a publication by the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Health Advancement Standing Committee, the full report is available in PDF format
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Promoting the health of indigenous Australians: A review of infrastructure support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health advancement - a publication by the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Health Advancement Standing Committee, the full report is available in PDF format
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Resource Unit Indigenous Mental Health Education and Research - located at the
University of Melbourne, "a resource in Indigenous
mental health education and research jointly funded by the federal Office of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Health Services and the Victorian Mental Health Branch. It supports the
development of integrated mental health programs for Aboriginal communities and is guided by
the principles of Self Determination and Reconciliation"
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Royal Australasian College of
Physicians: Indigenous Health Education and Resource Guide - I wonder whether this
resource is accepted by the Aboriginal Community, but it's here on the web, and that's why I
refer to it. If you feel this is not appropriate,
please e-mail your concerns, and I well rectify the situation if warranted.
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Standing Committee: Indigenous Health
- "In view of the unacceptably high morbidity and mortality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community
Affairs was requested, during the Thirty-Eighth Parliament, to conduct an inquiry into
Indigenous Health. The Committee was unable to complete its work due to the dissolution of
the House of Representatives on 30 August 1998. Consequently, the Committee, on 12 January
1999 was asked by the Minister for Health and Aged Care to complete this inquiry in the
Thirty-Ninth Parliament, reporting on the same terms of reference as follows:
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ways to achieve effective Commonwealth co-ordination of the provision of health and
related programs to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, with particular
emphasis on the regulation, planning and delivery of such services;
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barriers to access to mainstream health services, to explore avenues to improve the
capacity and quality of mainstream health service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people and the development of linkages between Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander and mainstream services;
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the need for improved education of medical practitioners, specialists, nurses and health
workers, with respect to the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and
its implications for care;
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the extent to which social and cultural factors and location, influence health, especially
maternal and child health, diet, alcohol and tobacco consumption;
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the extent to which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status is affected by
educational and employment opportunities, access to transport services and proximity to
other community supports, particularly in rural and remote communities; and
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the extent to which past structures for delivery of health care services have contributed to
the poor health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people"
The final report has been published by now (June 2000) "Health is life: report on the inquiry into Indigineous health" which is available as a PDF-file (400KB) at:
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/fca/indhea/reportfinal.pdf
You need the Acrobat Reader to be able to read files with the suffix *.pdf. Download Adobe Acrobat
Reader here.
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Working With Indigenous Peoples With Disabilities - "provides up-to-date information about a wide range of practical resources for allied health professionals and carers working with Indigenous peoples with disabilities living in remote areas of Australia"
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Yooroang Garang - Center for Indigenous Health Studies
- located at the University of Sydney, this link provides information on Indigenous studies
plus a link to the Indigenous Health Network - highly recommended
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