Closing the gap in life expectancy is one of the key aims of the Australian gvernment's strategy to eliminate the disadvantages faced by the indigenous population. However, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) claimed that the initiative had failed and called for a complete overhaul....
The gap in life expectancy between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians is around 16 years in some parts of the Northern Territory, and in a statement accompanying his research on Monday, Amery said doctors needed to make their advice more accessible for those without a strong grasp on the ...
CVD remains the principal cause of death among all Australian population groups, including Aboriginal males and females, and is the primary contributor to the 17-year life-expectancy gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. This paper discusses the challenges inherent, from the perspective...
"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...
The Australian Medical Association says the money, to be spent over four years, is necessary to increase the life expectancy of aborigines. A study published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia shows the gap in life expectancy between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in the Northern Te...
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...
The aetiological contribution of these risk factors to the burden of HF in the greater Australian Aboriginal population has not been formally quantified and constitutes an important gap in current knowledge. Accurate data on indicators of HF among Indigenous Australians, as well as information on ...
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...
Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is a national priority. The Australian Government has set ambitious targets for closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage with respect to life expectancy, child mortality, access to early childhood education, educational attainment and empl...