Indigenous Australians And Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI)

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Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI), experience the worst health of any cultural group in Australia, as evidenced in research and through conclusions from epidemiological data formed by the Australian Government and thus, health promotion needs to consider culture, diversity, location and socioeconomic status. According to the AIHW, per capita the ATSI population suffer from ‘threefold mortality rates among 12 – 24 year olds.’ The most dramatic statistic being in the Northern Territory (rural) - Indigenous mortality rates are fivefold (500%) that of non-indigenous people - whereas indigenous mortality rates in NSW sit at 30% higher than non-indigenous. This reveals a clear idea that Aboriginal people need to become more …show more content…
They also account for 12% of the total burden of disease and injury from tobacco related illnesses, 7% of the total deaths in Australia and 6% of the total burden of disease from alcohol. This is most likely in correlation with the poor delivery and access of primary health services to the ATSI populace and the lack of awareness and thus, lack of a sense of responsibility within the individuals themselves, the community and government. In response to these major cultural specific inequities the COAG (Council of Australian Governments) - through the “Closing the Gap” campaign - initiated the National Partnership Agreement to adjust budgets and focus on addressing these issues. The Agreement is centred on providing a healthy transition to adulthood, ‘making Indigenous health everyone’s business’, ‘delivering effective primary health care services’, better coordinating funds through the health system and tackling …show more content…
These organisations are responsible to allocate and instate economically viable health services designed to improve and maintain the health of the ATSI population, as well as ensuring these services are efficiently provided in and throughout the community to improve collaboration, meet the needs of indigenous families and continue to constantly be a readily available source of primary health that is easily accessible to the high need indigenous groups (56% of ATSI people who before reported their health service to be below “good”), to parallel the fair health services available to non-indigenous persons, closing the gap on inequities of ATSI people through improving coordination of service delivery and the improvement primary health. Within the 4 years of The National Partnership Agreement’s increased uptake of funded primary health care in rural or deficient communities, approximately 130,000 additional Indigenous adult health checks have been provided, raising the awareness and early detection of preventable and curable diseases, although the percentage of the population unhappy with their health care (56%) remain unchanged, the rate of diseases (diabetes, cancers, anaemia etc), has gradually lowered and if the governments responsible for introducing these primary health initiates
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