Indigenous Australians living in the Northern Territory (NT), where more than a quarter of the population is indigenous, and Western Australia (WA) had the lowest life expectancy among the states and territories. Closing the gap in life expectancy is one of the key aims of the Australian gver...
In 1944 she won the Walkley Award for her exposure of indigenous family violence. Her recently published Book, , published by Allen & Unwin was shortlisted in the 2002 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.doi:10.1080/00450610309410581NeillRosemaryTaylor & Francis GroupAustralian Journal of Forensic Sciences...
The methods used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to estimate life expectancies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in 2009 have been controversial and require critical and sensitive analysis. The introduction by ABS of the direct method for estimating Indigenous life expectanci...
"We also quantified the contributions of changes in years of life lost to specific disease groups to overall changes in life expectancy, in order to identify areas in which progress has been achieved." Zhao and colleagues analyzed data from the Australian Coordinating Registry on underlying and nin...
It means the Closing the Gap program is not on track to reach its target of equal life expectancy by 2031, according to a report from the Australian Associated Press.■
Australia's top medical body wants the government to spend $1.5 million to boost primary health care services for the nation's indigenous population. The Australian Medical Association says the money, to be spent over four years, is necessary to increase the life expectancy of aborigines. A stud...
15.In Australia, there is a20- year gap in life expectancy between Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the Australian average.在澳大利亚,澳大利亚土著居民和托雷斯海峡岛民与普通澳大利亚人之间期望寿命相差20岁。 16.He used to live in Australia, but now he lives in London.他...
Last year, University of Melbourne parasite researchers measured the prevalence of human infection by one type of worm - thehookworm-at between 52 per cent and 61 per cent in Australian Indigenous communities. These same hookworms are largely eradicated in non-Indigenous communities and in most othe...
Indigenous people in Australia suffer significant disadvantage in health outcomes compared with non-Indigenous Australians (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004–2005). Despite some improvements, life expectancy for Indigenous Australians born in 2006 remains 16–17 years below that of the non-Indigenous...
Further, timely identification of HF with institution of evidence-based interventions diminishes symptoms and potentially prolongs life [16, 17]. However, the epidemiological indicators of HF among Indigenous Australians are poorly delineated. Although administrative data on HF in the Australian population ...