National Aboriginal AND Torres Strait Islander Health PLAN 2013 –2023 PDF

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Closing the Gap and improving the health and well-being for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian’s Plan has appropriate funding. Closing the gap since 20111...

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NATIONAL ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HEALTH PLAN 2013–2023 Intro p2            

Closing the Gap and improving the health and well-being for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian’s Plan has appropriate funding. Closing the gap since 20111 Plan's success partnership, particularly between the Australian Government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 12-month consultation The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples gave input and feedback. Drive health system improvements to achieve primary health policy reform. Research and data need to build evidence-based practice and policy. Warren Snowdon MP Address racism and empower self-manage own health. Focus Strength healthcare and enhance secondary and tertiary health systems. Pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians into the health system. Focus on the wellbeing of wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a disability, young people and for healthy ageing. Focus Expand focus on children health. Distressing issues of violence, abuse and self-harm. Focus Social inequalities and the determinates of health.

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To achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples History is closing the gap and the National Indigenous reform framework signed in 2008 and updated to 2021 and the COAG council of Governments.

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Health plan builds on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It adopts a strengths-based approach to ensure policies and programs improve health, social and emotional wellbeing, and resilience and promote positive health behaviours. It emphasises the centrality of culture in the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the rights of individuals to a safe, healthy and empowered life. The Health Plan also aligns with other governments’ plans and strategies which support better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (NSFATSIH) 2003-13.

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The 10-year life of this Health Plan comes at a critical time in ongoing efforts to close the gap; and

• continue working across governments and sectors to close the gap in Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander disadvantage. • invest in making health systems accessible, culturally safe and appropriate, effective and responsive for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; and • support good health and wellbeing across the life course and continue to target risk factors at key life stages.

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The Australian health system is free of racism and inequality and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have access to health services that are effective, high quality, appropriate and affordable. Together with strategies to address social inequalities and determinants of health, this provides the necessary platform to realise health equality by 2031.

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Overarching Goal Targeted, evidence-based action that will contribute to achieving equality of health status and life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and nonIndigenous Australians by 2031 (one of the six Closing the Gap targets) (AIHW, 2011-2021) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people view health in a holistic context as reflected in the holistic definition of health contained within the National Aboriginal Health Strategy (1989): “‘Aboriginal health’ means not just the physical wellbeing of an individual but refers to the social, emotional and cultural wellbeing of the whole Community in which each individual is able to achieve their full potential as a human being, thereby bringing about the total wellbeing of their Community. It is a whole-of life view and includes the cyclical concept of life-death-life” (NAHSWP, 1989).

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