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  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

Indigenous Chronic Disease Package in 2010-11 - Annual Progress Report

Introduction

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This publication reports on progress in implementing the Indigenous Chronic Disease Package (ICDP) in the 2010-11 financial year. It demonstrates how the Australian Government’s commitment to tackling chronic disease to help close the gap in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is being achieved.

This is the second report by the Australian Government on its progress in implementing the ICDP. It covers the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 and reports against the benchmarks and deliverables in the Australian Government’s Implementation Plan, as required by the National Partnership Agreement.

The report also includes case studies from some of the organisations who are involved in the implementation of the Package.

For More Information

For more information on the Australian Government Indigenous Chronic Disease Package, please visit us at: http://www.health.gov.au/tackling-chronic-disease

Acronyms

ACCHO	Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
ATSIOW	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Worker
CDMP	Chronic Disease Management Program
COAG	Council of Australian Governments
FTE	Full-time Equivalent
GPET	General Practice Education and Training
ICDP	Indigenous Chronic Disease Package
MBS	Medicare Benefits Schedule
MSOAP	Medical Specialist Outreach Assistance Program
NACCHO	National Aboriginal and Community Controlled Health Organisation
NPA	National Partnership Agreement
PBS	Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
PIP	Practice Incentives Program
RTO	Registered Training Organisation
USOAP	Urban Specialist Outreach Assistance Program

For the purpose of this report, an Indigenous health service is a practice, Aboriginal community controlled health service, or a clinic providing primary care services to a predominantly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population; and is a provider of Medicare rebated services.

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