Indigenous health in Australia

Indigenous health in Australia
Indigenous health in Australia
Other names	Wellbeing of Australian Indigenous
	Aboriginal mural and handprints at the North Yarra Community Health opening
Complications	Circulatory system, kidney failure, communicable, diabetes, cot death, mental health, ophthalmology, neoplasms, respiratory, cancer
Duration	Historical, ongoing
Causes	Poor access to health services, higher unemployment, poverty, cultural pressures, cultural differences, remote community, inadequate housing and access to infrastructure, economic, societal, and racial disparities, high rates of incarceration
Risk factors	Premature death, high rates of disease, shorter life expectancy, poor dental, oral and eye health
Diagnostic method	Low levels, low rate of screening
Prevention	Limited programs to close the gap
Treatment	Delayed or inadequate treatment, common treatments, traditional, lack of treatment, low levels
Prognosis	Death caused by diabetes, cancer, human T-lymphotropic virus 1, mental health, smoking, substance abuse, pneumococcal disease, and other complications
Frequency	Most complications up to 10-fold higher. Communicable disease up to 70-fold higher. Relatively high rates of suicide, cancer, various complications especially among indigenous women, high hospitalization rate
Deaths	Overall early death, relatively higher infant mortality, and 9 to 11 shorter life expectancy

Indigenous health in Australia examines health and wellbeing indicators of Indigenous Australians compared with the rest of the population. Statistics indicate that Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders are much less healthy than other Australians. Various government strategies have been put into place to try to remediate the problem; there has been some improvement in several areas, but statistics between Indigenous Australians and the rest of the Australian population still show unacceptable levels of difference.