Health topic quickview: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
A collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health-related information in the Health and Ageing website.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
04 January 2012
From this launching page you will find information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health programs as well as contact information for people working within OATSIH.
Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections
22 July 2011
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing provides leadership for the coordination of the national response to blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections through a number of national strategies and initiatives.
Bringing Them Home
31 May 2011
This landing page provides information and relevant links relating to Bringing Them Home.
Surveillance report for active trachoma annual reports
24 December 2010
The National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit (NTSRU) was established in November 2006 to improve the quality and consistency of data collection and reporting of active trachoma in Australia. This page contains links to trachoma surveillance annual reports from 2006. Documents are available in both HTML and PDF format.
Closing the Gap: Tackling Chronic Disease
16 October 2009
Program/Initiatives
- 07 Sep 2011Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Areas
- 08 Mar 2011Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarships
- 08 Mar 2011National Indigenous Health Workforce Training Package
- 08 Mar 2011Ear and Hearing Training initiative for Aboriginal Health Workers
- 08 Mar 2011Closing the Gap: Tackling Indigenous Chronic Disease Package
- 01 Nov 2010Quality Assurance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medical Services (QAAMS)
- 10 Mar 2010Enhanced Primary Care Program overview
- 27 Feb 2009Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Areas program
- 27 Oct 2008Petrol Sniffing Prevention Program
- 04 Apr 2008Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme
Publications
- 16 Jan 2012Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Programs
- 19 Dec 2011Revised Recommendations for Clinical Care Guidelines on the Management of Otitis Media (Middle Ear Infection) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations 2010
- 13 Dec 2011The Recommendations for Clinical Care Guidelines on the Management of Otitis Media in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations, March 2001
- 13 Dec 2011Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework - 2008 Report & Report Summary
- 09 Dec 2011National Strategies for blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections
- 11 Nov 2011OATSIH Information for Health Services
- 25 Oct 2011Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework
- 12 Aug 20117th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health Conference Kalgoorlie, WA
- 29 Jul 2011Australian Government strong fathers strong families program – Questions and answers fact sheet
- 26 Jul 2011Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework Report Summary
- 15 Jul 2011Interim Evaluation of the Northern Territory Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Aged Care Workforce Development Projects
- 26 May 2011Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework 2010 report
- 25 May 2011Evaluation of the sustainability and benefits of swimming pools in the Anagu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands (APY lands) in South Australia.
- 22 Feb 2011Trachoma Surveillance Report 2006 to 2009
- 10 Jan 2011Environmental Health Practitioner Manual: A resource manual for Environmental Health Practitioners working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
- 26 Nov 2010National Recommendations for the Clinical Management of Alcohol-Related Problems in Indigenous Primary Care Settings
- 09 Jul 2010Third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections strategy 2010–2013
- 07 Jun 2010Indigenous ear health: Developmental market research to inform indigenous social marketing campaigns
- 25 May 2010Review of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Components of the Northern Territory Emergency Response
- 03 Mar 2010A National Health and Hospitals Network for Australia’s future
- 03 Feb 2010Enquiry into claims regarding Leprosy testing on Aboriginal Children in the Northern Territory between 1920 and 1960
- 03 Dec 2009Evaluation of the Child Health Check initiative and expanding health services delivery initiative
- 03 Dec 2009The Progress of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Child Health Check Initiative: Preliminary Results from the Child Health Check and Follow-up data collections
- 27 Jul 2009A Healthier Future for All Australians: National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission - Final Report June 2009
- 17 Jun 2008Volatile substance misuse: a review of interventions: monograph series no. 65
- 17 Jun 2008When girls and women sniff
- 17 Jun 2008When boys and men sniff
- 01 Jun 2008A Review of enablers and barriers of Indigenous drug users accessing needle and syringe programs – a report for the COAG Multilateral Group on Needle and Syringe Programs
- 25 May 2008Progress of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Child Health Check Initiative: Health Conditions and Referrals
- 22 Oct 2007National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health 2003-2013
Australian Government Implementation Plan 2007-2013 - 06 Aug 2007Providing culturally appropriate palliative care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: Resource Kit
- 08 May 2007Evaluation of the Bringing Them Home and Indigenous Mental Health Programs
- 03 Apr 2007Evidence of effective interventions to improve the social and environmental factors impacting on health: Informing the development of Indigenous Community Agreements
- 10 May 2006Sniffing and the brain
- 04 Jul 2003National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- 01 Sep 2002gettin em n keepin em
- 22 Oct 2001An Analysis of suicide in Indigenous communities of north Queensland: the historical, cultural and symbolic landscape
- 01 Mar 2001Government response to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Indigenous health: 'Health is life'
- 01 Jan 2000Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 1999-2000 Key results
- 01 Feb 1995Ways forward: national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health policy
