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  Disease Package
• Tackling Chronic Disease
  Risk Factors
  • National action to reduce Indigenous smoking rate
  • Helping Indigenous Australians to reduce their risk of chronic disease
  • Local Indigenous community campaigns to promote better health
• Improving Chronic Disease
  Management and Follow up
  • Subsidising PBS medicine co-payments
  • Higher utilisation costs for MBS and PBS
  • Supporting primary care providers to coordinate chronic disease management
  • Improving Indigenous participation in health care through chronic disease self management
  • Increasing specialist and allied health follow up care
  • Monitoring and evaluation
• Workforce Expansion,
  Training and Support
  • Workforce education and training
  • Expanding the outreach and service capacity of Indigenous health services
  • Engaging Medicare Locals to improve Indigenous Access to mainstream primary care
  • Attracting more people to work in Indigenous Health
  • Clinical practice and decision support

Tackling Chronic Disease Risk Factors

Chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes and cancer are some of the biggest killers of Indigenous Australians. Yet the impact of these diseases can be greatly reduced, if not avoided altogether, through changes in lifestyle and healthier life choices.

Measures in this priority area therefore tackle chronic disease risk factors such as smoking, poor nutrition and lack of exercise, and deliver community education initiatives to reduce the prevalence of these risk factors in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations.

The initiatives under this component of the package will provide Indigenous tobacco campaign activities, a new tobacco action workforce, a health promotion workforce, healthy lifestyle programs and improved access to smoking cessation services by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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