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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Powerful statement – and some major challenges – from
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the 3<sup>rd</sup> National Aboriginal Health Summit, which recommended that:</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">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</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">services and is within society’s capacity to change.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">2. An integrated approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes supporting and strengthening families and communities
be embedded through addressing early childhood,</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">education, employment, housing, economic development and environmental outcomes.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">3. Government investment should be reoriented into the early childhood years
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">4. The Council of Australian Government (COAG) adopt the following national targets in addition to the existing Closing the Gap targets:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">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</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">50% by 2020 and there be no gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and non-Indigenous children by 2031</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">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.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">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.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">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,</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">resilience and improves health outcomes. Recognising this, the Commonwealth and State/Territory health plan implementation plans must
specifically address the cultural determinants of health.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">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,</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">which are fully funded over ten years and contain nationally agreed performance measures that are reported against annually to their
respective Parliaments.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">7 Governments work with the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Organisations to develop jurisdictional
health workforce plans and a workforce development model</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">that is funded, sustainable and measurable and that are aligned with the existing national Aboriginal health workforce plan to build
on current achievements.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"><font face="Verdana">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</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);">wellbeing teams in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Services.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);"></span></font></p>
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