 | This article needs to be updated. (January 2020) |
| Indigenous health in Australia | |
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| Other names | Wellbeing of Australian Indigenous |
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| Aboriginal mural and handprints at the North Yarra Community Health opening | |
| Complications | Circulatory system, kidney failure, communicable, diabetes, cot death, mental health, ophthalmology, neoplasms, respiratory, cancer |
| Duration | Historical, ongoing |
| Causes | Poor access to health services, higher unemployment, poverty, cultural pressures, cultural differences, remote community, inadequate housing and access to infrastructure, economic, societal, and racial disparities, high rates of incarceration |
| Risk factors | Premature death, high rates of disease, shorter life expectancy, poor dental, oral and eye health |
| Diagnostic method | Low levels, low rate of screening |
| Prevention | Limited programs to close the gap |
| Treatment | Delayed or inadequate treatment, common treatments, traditional, lack of treatment, low levels |
| Prognosis | Death caused by diabetes, cancer, human T-lymphotropic virus 1, mental health, smoking, substance abuse, pneumococcal disease, and other complications |
| Frequency | Most complications up to 10-fold higher. Communicable disease up to 70-fold higher. Relatively high rates of suicide, cancer, various complications especially among indigenous women, high hospitalization rate |
| Deaths | Overall early death, relatively higher infant mortality, and 9 to 11 shorter life expectancy |
Indigenous health in Australia examines health and wellbeing indicators of Indigenous Australians compared with the rest of the population. Statistics indicate that Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders are much less healthy than other Australians. Various government strategies have been put into place to try to remediate the problem; there has been some improvement in several areas, but statistics between Indigenous Australians and the rest of the Australian population still show unacceptable levels of difference.