O31 Engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Acculturation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition.

The health status of Australia's indigenous people remains the worst of any subgroup within the population, and there is little evidence of any significant improvement over the past two decades, a situation unprecedented on a world scale. Compared with non-indigenous Australians, adult life expectancy is reduced by 15-20 years, with twice the rates of mortality from heart disease, 17 times the ...

Engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men in primary care settings.

Engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men in primary care settings

TO THE EDITOR: The summation by Russell that “the inescapable reality is that current primary care interventions are not working”1 overlooks evidence of signifi cant improvements in the Northern Territory. The latest “closing the gap” report indicates that the Indigenous mortality gap in the NT should close within a generation.2 Mortality among NT Indigenous adults has declined by a third since...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health, wellbeing and leadership.

References 1 Edwards C, Read P, editors. The lost children: thirteen Australians taken from their Aboriginal families tell of the struggle to find their natural parents. Sydney: Doubleday, 1989. 2 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Bringing them home. A. Building spirit, building health: implications of innovations in Australian indigenous health for all men's health. boriginal and ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and tobacco.