National performance indicators for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
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Published in the HealthBulletin Journal
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At its meeting on 20 February 1997, the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (AHMAC) endorsed a set of national performance indicators for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. The set comprises 53 indicators grouped into eight categories: health outcomes, access, health service impacts, workforce development, risk factors, intersectoral issues, community involvement, and quality of service provision. The AHMAC endorsement was subject to further work being undertaken over the following six months on:
- the technical refinement of the indicators and targets; and
- consultations by the Aboriginal community-controlled health sector with their constituents, with particular reference to indicators and targets for community control and related to the wider issues underlying poor health.
AHMAC also agreed to put the indicators and targets to Health Ministers, and that:
- all jurisdictions should take immediate steps to improve the quality of data related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health to enable reporting against indicators;
- all jurisdictions should report to AHMAC in six months against those indicators where data are available, and their progress in developing the capacity to report where they are currently unable to report due to inadequate data;
- Heads of Aboriginal Health Units should report to AHMAC in six months on the outcomes of the indicator refinement process and the outcomes of the community sector’s consultations; and
- there be subsequent annual reporting to AHMAC.
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