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• Fourth National Aboriginal and Islander Health Workers’ Conference: ‘health workers making the difference’
  July 1, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 3 July 2003 - September 2003 |

  The 4th National Aboriginal and Islander Health Workers’ Conference was held on Kaurna land in Adelaide, South Australia from June 15-18. The theme of the 2003 conference acknowledged the unique contribution that health workers make to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. The conference offered an opportunity for […]

• Review of the GP workforce serving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  July 31, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 3 July 2003 - September 2003 |

  The following summary has been adapted from publicity documents and is reproduced with the permission of Deborah Corrigall, Senior Social Researcher, Urbis Keys Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people suffer the worst health status of any group in Australia. They have higher levels of morbidity and a life expectancy twenty years less than non-Indigenous […]

• Indigenous doctors appointed to the NHMRC’s Health Advisory Committee
  August 12, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 3 July 2003 - September 2003 |

  The following summary has been adapted from the 24 June 2003 Ministerial media release. Two prominent Indigenous doctors, Dr Noel Hayman of QEII Hospital Health Service District and Dr Mark Wenitong of Wu Chopperen Medical Service, have been recently appointed to the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Health Advisory Committee. The Committee, Australia’s […]

• Indigenous researchers appointed to the NHMRC’s Research Committee
  August 12, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 3 July 2003 - September 2003 |

  The following summary has been adapted from the 23 June 2003 Ministerial media release. Two prominent Indigenous researchers, Dr Sandra Eades of the Menzies School of Health Research and Associate Professor Jacinta Elston, of James Cook University, have been recently appointed to the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Research Committee. The NHMRC’s Research […]

• Recently released – the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health: Framework for Action by Governments
  September 8, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 3 July 2003 - September 2003 |

  The National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health: Framework for Action by Governments was endorsed by the Australian and State/Territory governments through their respective Cabinet processes and signed by all Health Ministers in July 2003. This document is complementary to the 1989 (reprinted in 1996) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health […]