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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework - 2008 Report & Report Summary

This page provides information on the 2008 Report and Report Summary

Full Report:

Printable PDF version of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework - 2008 Report (PDF 5369 KB)

The same report in smaller sections:
Prelims and Chapter 1-2: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HPF - 2008 Report (1-2) (PDF 1208 KB)
Chapter 3-4: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HPF - 2008 Report (3-4) (PDF 1402 KB)
Chapter 5: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HPF - 2008 Report (5) (PDF 1710 KB)
Chapter 6 and Appendices: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HPF - 2008 Report (6) (PDF 2112 KB)

Report Summary

Printable PDF version of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework - 2008 Report Summary (PDF 1765 KB)
An html version of the Report Summary is in preparation.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (HPF) has been developed under the auspice of the Australian Health Minister's Advisory Council (AHMAC). The HPF is designed to inform policy analysis, planning and program implementation. The Report provides high-quality contextual data on progress towards the COAG ‘Closing the Gap’ agenda.

This is the second report against the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework and it reports against 71 measures across three domains:

• Health status and outcomes
• Determinants of health including socioeconomic and behavioural factors, and
• Health system performance.

Please note the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is in the process of revising Indigenous Life Expectancy figures and the current figures in this report may need to be updated in early 2009.

The Report finds that there have been improvements in some aspects of health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, while some areas are unchanged and some are worsening.

• Areas of improvement include: overall mortality and infant mortality, deaths caused by circulatory disease, expansion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care, antenatal care, immunisation, education and unemployment.

• Areas of concern include: deaths caused by chronic diseases, injury, end stage kidney disease, social and emotional well-being, low birth weight, chronic ear disease, oral health, sexually transmissible infections, social determinants of health, smoking including smoking during pregnancy, alcohol, physical activity, nutrition, obesity, relative per capita health expenditure, early detection and early treatment, access to prescription medicine, numbers of Indigenous Australians in the health workforce and access to health services.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) prepared the data for the 2008 Report and has published more detailed analyses of each measure on their website: The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

Other publications in the HPF series:
2006 Report
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework

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