indigenous health
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Industry & Reform
New aged care report centres voices of older First Nations people
A new report from the Department of Health and Aged Care on transforming the nation's aged care system for First…
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Clinical Practice
Improving maternal outcomes in rural and remote communities
The health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people starts at birth. The target to halve the gap in child mortality…
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News
Nursing gongs recognise patient advocates, visionaries
People with liver disease in south-east Queensland can access mobile, life-saving treatments, West Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities…
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Clinical Practice
Extended care
Two RNs and one midwife describe their roles in Closing the Gap. After moving from a hospital-based nursing career to…
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Clinical Practice
Within reach
Many factors that contribute to worse health outcomes from Indigenous people can be improved with better access to information and…
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News
Inspiring change
Associate professor Roianne West, of James Cook University, is the first full-time Aboriginal academic in the School of Nursing, Midwifery…
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Ideology a healthy starting point
There is much Australia can learn from other post-colonial societies when it comes to ‘closing the gap’ in indigenous health,…
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Positive gains in indigenous health reversed: report
The latest government report card on indigenous health has shown some concerning trends, Linda Belardi reports. Improvements in indigenous mortality…
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Real stories, real people
Health workers urged to ‘do something real in indigenous health’. Nurses, doctors, dentists, pharmacists and other health practitioners are being…
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Improving indigenous lives a challenge
Gillard admits it will be extremely difficult to close the life-expectancy gap by the target year of 2031 with current…
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