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I've explained that the Australian Medical Association Report Card Series
2007 - "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - institutionalised
Inequity not Just a Matter of Money" wasn't - as Bob said, "the work of
one doctor".
It was the distillation of 24 papers from professionals and academics.
The sources from which the report was drawn, and which underpin it are:
Quote:
1. AIHW. National Summary of the 2003 and 2004
jurisdictional reports against the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Health performance
indicators. AIHW. 2006.
2. Trewin D, Madden R. The Health and Welfare of
Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples 2005. AIHW. 2005.
3. AIHW. Mortality over the 20th Century in
Australia: trends and patterns in major causes
of death. AIHW 2006.
4. AIHW. Australia's Health 2006. AIHW. 2006.
5. Draper G, Turrell G, Oldenburg B. Health
Inequalities in Australia: Mortality. AIHW. 2004.
6. AIHW. Expenditure on Health Services for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
2001-02. AIHW. 2005.
7. Department of Health and Ageing. Australian
Health and Ageing System: the Concise Factbook.
Commonwealth of Australia. 2007.
8. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Household
Income and Income Distribution, Australia,
2003-04. ABS. 2005.
9. Britt H, Miller GC, Knox S, Charles J, Valenti
L, Henderson J et al. General Practice Activity
2002-03. BEACH. AIHW. 2003.
10. Productivity Commission. Report on Government
Services 2007. Productivity Commission.
January 2007.
11. Australian Transport Safety Bureau. Road
Deaths Australia, 2005 Statistical Summary.
ATSB. 2006.
12. Mathur S, Moon L, Leigh S. Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people with coronary heart
disease. Further perspectives on health status
and treatment. AIHW. 2006.
13. Coory M, Walsh WF. Rates of Percutaneous
coronary interventions and bypass surgery
after acute myocardial infarction in Indigenous
patients. MJA 182:507-512. 2005.
14. Cass A, Cunningham J, Snelling P, Wang Z,
Hoy W. Renal transplantation for Indigenous
Australians: identifying the barriers to equitable
access. Ethn Health. 8: 111-119. 2003.
15. Cass A, Devitt J, Preece C, Cunningham J,
Anderson K, Snelling P, Eris J, Ayanian J.
Barriers to access by Indigenous Australians
to kidney transplantation: the IMPAKT study.
Nephrology. Dec;9 Suppl 4:S144-6. 2004.
16. Rogers NM, Lawton PD, Jose MD. Kidney
transplant outcomes in the Indigenous
population in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Transplantation. Oct 15;82(7):882-6. 2006.
17. Hall SE, Bulsara MK, Leahy TG, Culbong MR,
Hendrie D, Holman CD. Treatment patterns
for cancer in Western Australia: does being
Indigenous make a difference? MJA. 181:
191-194. 2004
18. Cunningham J. Diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures among Australian hospital patients
identified as Indigenous. MJA 176:58-62. 2002.
19. Institute of Medicine. Unequal treatment:
confronting racial and ethnic disparities in
health care. Washington, DC: National Academy
of Sciences. 2003.
20. Australian Medical Association. Position
Statement on the Social Determinants of
Health and the Prevention of Health Inequities.
Australian Medical Association. Canberra. 2007.
21. McConnachie K, Hollingsworth D, Pettman J.
Race and racism in Australia. Sydney: Social
Science Press. 1988.
22. Bolt RJ. It's just how you've been brought
up! An Aboriginal perspective on the
relationship between the law, racism and
mental health [honours thesis]. Sydney:
University of Sydney, 2001.
23. Henry BR, Houston S, Mooney GH. Institutional
racism in Australian healthcare: a plea for
decency. Fairness and compassion are the
bases for improving Aboriginal health. MJA
180:518-20. 2004.
24. Cunningham J, Cass A, Arnold P. Bridging the
treatment gap for Indigenous Australians. MJA
182:505-506. 2005.
This is an overwhelming body of evidence from which to inform the report.
There are references to the "AIHW" - the Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare. It provides accurate statistical info and reports on health
and welfare in Oz.
It can be found at: http://www.aihw.gov.au/
The AMA is striving to ensure that public money is effectively targeted to
improve the wellbeing of seriously disadvantaged people whose health and
wellbeing lags a full century behind white Australians.
Good idea, or not?
The true test of a civilised society is how it deals with its weak,
vulnerable and disadvantaged. Isn't that a Christian sentiment?
Why should an upbeat report by the AMA come in for attack just because
I - a British radio amateur, had the temerity to draw attention to it?
Some good news stories about Oz from VKs would make a nice change.
There's plenty to shout about.
Australia is ranked third in the world in the Human Development Index,
which includes such factors as GDP per capita, numeracy, literacy etc -
a fraction of a point behind Iceland and Norway, well ahead of the
UK in 15th place.
Even I know that, and I don't live there!
Why not be proactive and positive instead of reactive and negative?
Best wishes
David, G4EBT @ GB7FCR
Cottingham, East Yorkshire.
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