[Commpsych] FW: Communique - 3rd National Aboriginal Health Summit, July 2015, Darwin NT

[Heather Gridley]

Powerful statement – and some major challenges – from the 3rd National Aboriginal Health Summit, which recommended that:

1. Racism, both individual and systemic, within the health system and across wider society must be addressed, noting the evidence that racism makes people sick, limits access and effectiveness of
services and is within society’s capacity to change.
2. An integrated approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes supporting and strengthening families and communities be embedded through addressing early childhood,
education, employment, housing, economic development and environmental outcomes.
3. Government investment should be reoriented into the early childhood years
4. The Council of Australian Government (COAG) adopt the following national targets in addition to the existing Closing the Gap targets:
4.1 The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children developmentally vulnerable on two or more domains in the Australian Early Development Census scores be reduced by
50% by 2020 and there be no gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and non-Indigenous children by 2031
4.2 The incarceration rate for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people between the ages of 15 and 30 be reduced by 50% by 2025.
4.3 The gap in the rates of suicide and suicide attempts within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community be reduced by 20% by 2020, and 50% by 2025 and 100% by 2031.
5 The cultural determinants of health promote a strengths based perspective acknowledging that stronger connections to culture and country build stronger individual and collective identities, self esteem,
resilience and improves health outcomes. Recognising this, the Commonwealth and State/Territory health plan implementation plans must specifically address the cultural determinants of health.
6 In line with the COAG commitment to close the gap by 2031, all governments commit to implementing Commonwealth and State/Territory Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander health plans,
which are fully funded over ten years and contain nationally agreed performance measures that are reported against annually to their respective Parliaments.
7 Governments work with the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Organisations to develop jurisdictional health workforce plans and a workforce development model
that is funded, sustainable and measurable and that are aligned with the existing national Aboriginal health workforce plan to build on current achievements.
8 The Australian Government adopt the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander recommendations of the National Mental Health Commission’s Review Report, including establishing emotional and social
wellbeing teams in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Services.

I’d like to see that!

Heather


Heather Gridley | Manager, Public Interest
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