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| Publication | Year | Status | Health topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Recommendations for Clinical Care Guidelines on the Management of Otitis Media (Middle Ear Infection) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations 2010 | 2012 | Current | |
| Evaluation of the NT MOS projects This report assesses the implementation of the Mobile Outreach Service projects model and its impact on, and outcomes for, Aboriginal children and young people and their families and communities. | 2011 | Current | |
| Interim Evaluation of the Northern Territory Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Aged Care Workforce Development Projects Final Report - August 2010 of the Northern Territory Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Aged Care Workforce Development Projects | 2011 | Current | |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework monitors progress in closing the gap in Indigenous Australian health outcomes, health system performance and broader determinants of health. | 2011 | Current | |
| Australian Government strong fathers strong families program – Questions and answers fact sheet The Strong Fathers Strong Families Program is an Australian Government initiative to promote the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fathers, partners, grandfathers and uncles, and encourage them to actively participate in their childrens and families lives, particularly in the antenatal period and early childhood development years. | 2010 | Current | |
| Indigenous ear health: Developmental market research to inform indigenous social marketing campaigns As part of the Improving Eye and Ear Health Services for Indigenous Australians for Better Education and Employment Outcomes measure, social marketing activities targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are being developed and implemented from 2010 to 2013 to help promote ear and hearing health. | 2010 | Current | |
| Environmental Health Practitioner Manual: A resource manual for Environmental Health Practitioners working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities This manual is designed as a field reference for Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs) engaging with and working in remote Indigenous communities. | 2010 | Current | |
| OATSIH Funding Agreement OATSIHs Head Agreement and Funding Agreement | 2010 | Current | |
| Third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections strategy 2010–2013 This strategy is one of a suite of five strategies aiming to reduce the transmission of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and blood borne viruses (BBVs), and the morbidity, mortality and personal and social impacts they cause. | 2010 | Current | |
| National Strategies for blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections The Australian Health Ministers’ Conference have endorsed five new national strategies for blood borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmissible infections (STIs). | 2010 | Current | |
| A National Health and Hospitals Network for Australia’s future This document sets out major structural reforms to establish the financing and governance foundations of a National Health and Hospitals Network for Australia’s future. The Government expects that these reforms will permanently establish the Commonwealth Government as the majority funder of hospitals and place the Australian health system onto a sustainable and self-improving footing for the future. | 2010 | Current | |
| Evaluation of the sustainability and benefits of swimming pools in the Anagu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands (APY lands) in South Australia. The evaluation highlights the impact that swimming pools have on the health of Indigenous children in remote communities in the APY lands. | 2010 | Current | |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework Report Summary This report provides a summary of the key findings from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework 2008 Report (HPF). The first report was published in 2006. The HPF has been developed under the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (AHMAC) to provide the basis for measuring the impact of the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (NSFATSIH) (NATSIHC 2003). | 2009 | Current | |
| A Healthier Future for All Australians: National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission - Final Report June 2009 This report identifies actions that can be taken by governments to reform the health system under three reform goals: tackling major access and equity issues that affect health outcomes for people now; redesigning our health system so that it is better positioned to respond to emerging challenges; and creating an agile and self-improving health system for long-term sustainability. | 2009 | Current | |
| When girls and women sniff A flipchart to raise awareness amongst girls and women of the adverse effects of petrol sniffing. | 2008 | Current | |
| Volatile substance misuse: a review of interventions: monograph series no. 65 This review examines published and unpublished literature about interventions designed to combat volatile substance misuse. | 2008 | Current | |
| When boys and men sniff A flipchart to raise awareness amongst boys and men of the adverse effects of petrol sniffing. | 2008 | Current | |
| A 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 This study examined factors that either deter or support access to Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) services among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander injecting drug users (IDUs). | 2008 | Current | |
| 2006 – 2007 Jurisdictional Summary Report against the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (NSFATSIH) The 2006-2007 jurisdictional summary report provides a summary of the individual jurisdictional reports that have been provided by all State and Territory Governments and covers the period of 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007. | 2008 | Historical | |
| Evaluation of the National Donovonosis Eradication Project 2001-2004 A report prepared for the department by La Trobe University in 2005 | 2007 | Historical | |
| Sexual Health Promotion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People – A community guide to evidence-based best practice in social and behavioural interventions This community guide to evidence-based best practice in social and behavioural interventions is intended for use by Aboriginal health workers, Aboriginal sexual health workers and other health clinic staff involved in sexual health promotion. It has been synthesised from a systemic review of published literature of what is effective in sexual health promotion in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health context. | 2007 | Historical | |
| Evaluation of the Bringing them home and Indigenous mental health programs An evaluation of Link Up, Bringing Them Home Counsellors, Social and Emotional Well Being Regional Centres and Mental Health Service Delivery Projects. | 2007 | Current | |
| Evidence of effective interventions to improve the social and environmental factors impacting on health: Informing the development of Indigenous Community Agreements This report is a literature review which summarises research and evaluations of Indigenous community programs in nutrition, early childhood, housing, sporting and cultural programs, employment, community services and alcohol use. | 2007 | Current | |
| National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Strategy 2005-2008: Implementation Plan The Implementation Plan for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Strategy 2005-2008 has been developed to assist key stakeholders to progress and monitor activities on HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and sexually transmissible infections across the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and should be read in conjunction with the strategy. | 2006 | Historical | |
| Trachoma Surveillance Report 2006 to 2010 National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit | 2006 | Current | |
| Sniffing and the brain A flipchart to raise awareness of the effects of petrol sniffing and inhalant abuse. | 2006 | Current | |
| Healthy for Life: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child and Maternal Health Exemplar Site Initiative: Site Reports 2005 This report is a synthesis of reports provided by Nganampa Health Council, Townsville Aboriginal and Islanders Health Services and Durri Aboriginal Medical Service under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child and Maternal Health Exemplar Site Initiative. The report has been compiled by the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH), in consultation with each of the Exemplar Sites. | 2005 | Historical | |
| Providing culturally appropriate palliative care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: Resource Kit Also known as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Palliative Care Resource Kit, this publication provides strategies and training material to support staff in mainstream health services to provide culturally appropriate palliative care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. | 2004 | Current | |
| Achievements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Summary Report This summary report has been prepared to inform health policy and planning decision-makers about the critical factors which have contributed to successful health initiatives. | 2003 | Historical | |
| National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Goal: To ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enjoy a healthy life equal to that of the general population that is enriched by a strong living culture, dignity and justice. Includes links to the earlier national Aboriginal health strategy documents. | 2003 | Historical | |
| National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Goal: To ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enjoy a healthy life equal to that of the general population that is enriched by a strong living culture, dignity and justice. Includes links to the earlier national Aboriginal health strategy documents. | 2003 | Historical | |
| Australian Government Implementation Plan 2003 - 2008 THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED | 2003 | Rescinded | |
| gettin em n keepin em This report by the Indigenous Nursing Education Working Group for the Commonwealth focusses on the inclusion of indigenous health in nursing curricula and recruitment and retention of indigenous nurses in the workforce. | 2002 | Current | |
| An Analysis of suicide in Indigenous communities of north Queensland: the historical, cultural and symbolic landscape This is the first systematic and comprehensive examination of suicides in Aboriginal communities in Queensland based on community records and available mortality figures. The data provides a picture which is notably different from that for suicide generally, in Queensland and across Australia. | 2001 | Historical | |
| Government response to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Indigenous health: 'Health is life' This report is the Government's response to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs inquiry into the health status of Indigenous Australians. The Government responds to each of the 36 recommendations made by the inquiry's 'Health is Life' report. | 2001 | Current | |
| Government response to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Indigenous health: 'Health is life' This report is the Government's response to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs inquiry into the health status of Indigenous Australians. The Government responds to each of the 36 recommendations made by the inquiry's 'Health is Life' report. | 2001 | Historical | |
| Health and Aged Care Portfolio submission to the Commonwealth Grants Commission's inquiry into Indigenous funding (June 2000) The submission responds to the Terms of Reference for the Inquiry, and provides information about the Department's strategic direction and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health programs. | 2000 | Historical | |
| National recommendations for the clinical management of alcohol-related problems in Indigenous primary care settings These recommendations are an outcome of the Substance Misuse Program Review. They were consensually derived to assist primary care practitioners with decisions about the management of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who present in primary care settings with alcohol related problems. | 2000 | Current | |
| Hospital casemix data and
the health of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander
peoples. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 3 The purpose of this paper is to provide a new perspective on the use of hospital services by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is also intended to encourage greater use of casemix-based information for both research and policy purposes. | 1999 | Historical | |
| Ways forward: national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health policy This document provides an overview of the mental health needs and problems of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and outlines "ways forward" to improve their mental health and wellbeing. | 1995 | Historical |
