Overview of Australian Indigenous health status, 2012

Authors

• Andrea Macrae, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Neil Thomson, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Anomie, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Jane Burns, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Michelle Catto, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Caitlin Gray, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Leah Levitan, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Naoibh McLoughlin, Edith Cowan University
• Christine Potter, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Kathy Ride, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Sasha Stumpers
• Avinna Trzesinski, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
• Belinda Urquhart, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Report

Keywords

Australian Indigenous health, closing the gap, equitable access to healthcare, population health overview, literature review

Publisher

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

School

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

Comments

MacRae, A., Thomson, N., Anomie,, Burns, J., Catto, M., Gray, C., Levitan, L., McLoughlin, N., Potter, C., Ride, K., Stumpers, S., Trzesinski, A., Urquhart, B.. (2013). Overview of Australian Indigenous health status, 2012. Perth, WA: Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.

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Abstract

This Overview has been prepared by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet as a part of our contributions to ‘closing the gap’ in health between Indigenous people and other Australians by making relevant, high quality knowledge and information easily accessible to policy makers, health service providers, program managers, clinicians, researchers, students and the general community.

The main purpose of the Overview is to provide a comprehensive summary of the most recent indicators of the health of Indigenous people.

Research for the Overview involves the collection, collation, and analysis of a wide range of relevant information, including both published and unpublished material. Sources include government reports, particularly those produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC) and the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (SCRGSP).

This Overview draws heavily on information from the main administrative data collections (such as the birth and death registration systems and the hospital inpatient collections) and national surveys. Information from these sources has been published mainly in government reports, particularly those produced by the ABS, the AIHW, and the SCRGSP.

Importantly, the Overview draws also on a wide variety of other information sources, including registers for specific diseases and other conditions, regional and local surveys, and numerous epidemiological and other studies examining particular diseases, conditions, and health determinants. Information from these sources is disseminated mainly through journals and similar periodicals, or in special reports (such as the annual reports of the Kirby Institute and the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry (ANZDATA)).

A number of sections include the results of our own analyses of data obtained from a variety of sources. For example, estimates of the age-adjusted incidence of end-stage renal disease were made using notification data provided by ANZDATA. Similarly, information about a number of communicable diseases was derived from data published by the Kirby Institute.

The initial sections of this Overview provide information about the context of Indigenous health, Indigenous population, and various measures of population health status. Most sections about specific health conditions comprise an introduction about the condition and evidence of the current burden of the condition among Indigenous people.

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