Health is life : report on the inquiry into indigenous health / House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs
- Bib ID:
- 2045616
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs
- Online Version:
- Edition:
- At head of title : "The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia".
- Description:
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- Canberra : The Committee, 2000
- xxv, 170 pages ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 064243672X
- Series:
- Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 2000, no. 110.
- Summary:
-
Health is life: report on the inquiry into indigenous health.
- Full contents:
-
- Machine derived contents note: 1 Introduction 1
- The Indigenous population 3
- Experiences in other countries 5
- Earlier reports 7
- Commonwealth coordination 9
- Community control 13
- Other important issues 14
- 2 Improving the coordination, planning and delivery of health services 17
- Current arrangements for planning and delivery of health and related servic s 17
- Access to Medicare Benefits and the PBS 18
- Funding 20
- Commonwealth coordination 24
- Coordinating Indigenous health services 25
- Revised funding arrangements 29
- Determining revised funding levels 30
- 3 Indigenous health services and community control 35
- Health services for Indigenous Australians 35
- Community control 41
- Building community capacity 44
- 4 Improving housing and Infrastructure services 47
- Other health related services 47
- Focus on sustainable services 49
- Other housing matters 54
- Training issues 56
- W ater 58
- Roads and other access issues 60
- Some other barriers to access 61
- Infrastructure funding and service delivery issues 63
- 5 Cultural, educational and employment issues as they relate to he Ith 67
- Cultural issues 69
- Education 72
- Employment 76
- A role for the health sector 79
- 6 Other important health issues 81
- Nutrition 81
- Substance misuse 88
- Impact of the welfare system 92
- 7 Health professional issues 95
- Aboriginal Health Workers 95
- Other health professionals 100
- General training issues 104
- Doctors 106
- N urses 110
- Indigenous health professionals 112
- Support for Indigenous students 113
- 8 Research and data collection 117
- Link between data and funding 119
- Research 122.
- Notes:
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- "May 2000".
- "Cover Art: Bush Medicine by Gloria Petyarre"
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1607681059
- Also available online https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20000831085055/http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/fca/indhea/reportfinal.pdf
- Subject:
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- Torres Strait Islanders -- Health and hygiene
- Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Medical care
- Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene
- Government policy - Commonwealth
- Health - Grants and finance
- Health services - Management
- Health status - Public health
- Health status - Nutrition
- Health services - Health workers - Training
- Health status - Environmental health
- Housing
- Health - Policy and administration
- Substance use - Alcohol
- Australia
- Other authors/contributors:
- Petyarre, Gloria, approximately 1942-2021
- Also Titled:
- Report on the inquiry into indigenous health.
- Copyright:
-
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- Until 2050 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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