NACCHO Sector News: 17 April 2025
Election 2025: Reconciliation Australia statement Reflections on women’s leadership in public health: the #LeadingWomen series1 Aboriginal organisations partner to Close the Gap in western Sydney...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health and Racism : Associate Professor Peter O’Mara, Chair...
” I can recount ‘hundreds’ of similar experiences and that ‘every Aboriginal person’ would have comparable stories – Aboriginal ethnicity is the strongest predictor of Discharge Against Medical Advice...
View ArticleAboriginal Health #CoronaVirus News Alert No 61 : May 13 #KeepOurMobSafe...
“We would need to ensure that strong border controls are maintained and that fully resourced and detailed national, jurisdictional and local outbreak plans are in place that ensure integration and...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander #RuralHealth : @RuralDoctorsAus...
“Both Federal and State governments, right across the country, need to step up and invest in rural health if they are serious about this. There have been numerous examples of initiatives developed to...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health and #Diabetes : This health professionals survey is...
” Australia’s Health Revolution is a new three-part documentary series for SBS TV that’ll be hosted by popular UK presenter and journalist Dr Michael Mosley and Australian Indigenous diabetes...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health News : Read / Download Press Release responses to...
“ These Closing the Gap reports tell the same story of failure every year The danger of this seemingly endless cycle of failure is that it breeds complacency and cynicism, while excusing those in...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health and the #ClosingtheGap debate : Professor Ian Ring...
“ The good news is that the lack of progress in Closing the Gaps can be turned around, but this requires capitalising on the opportunities presented by the COAG partnership and a fundamental shift in...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Children’s Health #BacktoSchool : What our kids eat can...
“When kids eat a healthy diet with a wide variety of fruit and vegetables in that diet, they actually perform better in the classroom. They’re going to have better stamina with their work, and...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health and the #UluruStatement : Our CEO Pat Turner to...
“Over the past few weeks I’ve travelled to Queensland and the Northern Territory to listen to Indigenous Australians – I am committed to being the minister for all Indigenous Australians, and want to...
View ArticleAboriginal #Rural and #Remote Health #ClosingTheGap #HaveYourSayCTG : New...
“Australians living in remote and regional areas are dying preventable deaths from treatable conditions because of a lack of access to health services. The damning assessment is contained in a new...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Kidney Health #NIKTT #NIDTC2019 #ClosingTheGap...
” Every which way you look at renal disease in Aboriginal people, the only solutions that will work in the long term are those that are Aboriginal–led, culturally responsive, located in Aboriginal...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health #HaveYourSayCTG #ClosingTheGap New @OxfamAustralia...
“ Not only will this give First Peoples a sense of empowerment, control and indeed sovereignty, as the case studies in this report show, this approach will also help to address the systemic...
View ArticleAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health #WorldMentalHealthDay 2019:...
“Our people experience very high levels of psychological stress at almost three times the rate of other Australians and are twice as likely to commit suicide. At the heart of suicide is a sense of...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal #MentalHealth Download @NMHC National Report 2019 Released...
” Working to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is a priority area for PHNs. The PHN Advisory Panel Report recommended that PHN funds for mental health and suicide...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal #EyeHealth : @FredHollows Foundation launches new Five Year...
“ While we have made significant progress over the last decade, we still have much more to do to achieve full eye health equity. Fred was passionate about partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health and #Ice #ClosingTheGap : Some call it an epidemic,...
“You need to trust us to be able to deliver a service to our own people linked in with culture. Who are the right people to deliver that? Our people. I have seen it a thousand times over. Once they...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health #NRW2019 Our CEO Pat Turner Interview : Could...
“Closing the Gap and the Voice are the two big issues, they’re separate but complimentary, and they can run in parallel. We want both. We want a real say over our lives. We have to be at the...
View ArticleNACCHO Members #VoteACCHO #Election2019 #Aboriginal Health Deadly Good News...
Feature Article this week from Apunipima ACCHO Cape York leading the way vaccinating the mob against the flu at no cost to the patient 1.1 National : Report from the recent Close the Gap for Vision...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health and #Election2019 #AusVotesHealth #VoteACCHO : Would...
” When you think of Indigenous health, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Is it the Closing the Gap campaign? The gap in life expectancy? Over-representation in the criminal justice system?...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health #Jobalerts to #CloseTheGap : Features @VACCHO_org...
Before completing a job application please check with the ACCHO that the job is still open 1. ACCHO Workforce Scholarship NEWS Lowitja are offering 16 full bursaries SCHOLARSHIPS CLOSING APRIL 12 –...
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