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NACCHO live RURAL HEALTH TV alert: Rural Health Policy into the Future
Panel includes: Dr Tom Calma AO – National Coordinator, Tackling Indigenous Smoking (pictured above second from left at our recent SMOKE FREE event) Join Dr Norman Swan and a panel of rural health...
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NACCHO Smokefree news: Governments can’t make people healthy; we have to do...
“In some of our communities smoking rates are higher, 80 per cent plus,” says Aboriginal elder and social rights campaigner, Dr Tom Calma AO. ( Pictured above left with NACCHO chair at our World No...
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NACCHO Smokefree: How to contact a Tackling Smoking & Healthy Lifestyle Team.
A new you for new years! Talk to your tobacco action worker at your local AMS to start your smoke free journey Please retweet of FACEBOOK below using hashtag #tacklingindigneoussmoking What are...
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NACCHO mental health news: Aboriginal mental health gap must be closed :...
Writing in the Australian head of the 20th anniversary todays of a landmark indigenous mental health report, Tom Calma and Pat Dudgeon (pictured above) Recommended providing indigenous Australians...
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NACCHO Smoke Free News : Indigenous smoking rates declining-Tom Calma
“We know that when provided appropriately targeted information and encouraged to lead the solutions, Indigenous people are responding in an overwhelmingly positive manner. But, while the decline of...
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NACCHO health alert: Report documents Aboriginal people are 50 per cent more...
Cancer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia: an overview is one of a series of reports commissioned by Cancer Australia and developed in collaboration with the Australian...
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NACCHO justice ANTaR campaign support: Abbott Government delivers a blow to...
“The defunding directly targets ATSILS work with governments to address the drivers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration. The cuts will mean that even more Aboriginal and Torres...
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NACCHO Aboriginal Health News alert :Billions $$$ to be reaped in closing the...
AUSTRALIA’S economy would grow by $24 billion and governments would be almost $12bn better off if key gaps between indigenous and non-indigenous people were closed by 2031, according to new modelling...
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NACCHO CTG and Aboriginal incarceration rates : Abbott must Close The Gap on...
“If Abbott were to seriously take on the incarceration issue, he would have to openly and actively confront the issue of ongoing systemic discrimination against Indigenous Australians, and acknowledge...
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NACCHO congratulates Dr Tom Calma Australia’s first Aboriginal male...
“There are now around 180 indigenous doctors and 260 (indigenous) medical students in Australia. However, there are approximately 80,000 doctors registered in Australia, so to reach parity of 3 per...
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NACCHO smoke free news: Aboriginal smoking program cuts risk widening the gap
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and early death among Indigenous Australians, with smoking responsible for about one in every five deaths. FROM THE CONVERSATION subscribe...
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NACCHO International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: Ensuring...
“This International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, I want us all to reflect on health and its links to reconciliation. Better outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians...
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“Indigenous youth imprisonment rate is highest in two decades,” Amnesty says
Original Story on The Guardian by Shalailah Medhora Money spent on jailing Indigenous Australians should be funnelled instead into community programs to stop them offending in the first place, a...
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NACCHO Aboriginal Health News: Plain packaging is a plain success for...
“ The Australian Government has an opportunity to continue, and to accelerate de-normalising tobacco use; addressing the cause of one in five of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths, the...
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NACCHO Smoking News: Plain packaging helping reinforce smoking risks among...
“Too many of our people smoke and this is causing great harm in our communities,’’ “About 42 people cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are daily smokers – this is about three times...
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NACCHO #CTG10 News alerts :Why is it so hard to Close the Gap?
Well, you know, I think it’s never acceptable if we don’t have a consistent policy approach and consistent funding and ministers who can stay focused and committed.The lack of progress should never be...
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NACCHO Aboriginal #Healthelection16 : Croakey Profiling diversity and...
“The initiative, launched in 2010, has helped to reduce Indigenous smoking rates, that have been falling at a faster rate than was seen in the general population, and he expects the 2016 national...
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NACCHO #ATSISPEP News Alert : Preview First Indigenous Suicide Prevention...
A community’s journey to find an answer to suicide: Photo: Helen Peterson, Elizabeth Taylor and Evelyn Peterson. Elizabeth Taylor, who lost her teenage friend to suicide, said the whole town was...
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NACCHO Aboriginal Health : #ATSISPEP report and the hope of a new era in...
” The many years of community-generated work in suicide prevention is something that Indigenous Australia, as a collective, should take great pride in. However, we have to acknowledge also that this...
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NACCHO Aboriginal Health ” Tackling Indigenous Smoking ” : New Year...
” I want to say some more about New Year Eve resolutions or pledges. Common among smokers around the world is the pledge they make to give up. This is great, but the common experience is that...
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