NSW Health is committed to improving health outcomes for Aboriginal people. The NSW Aboriginal Health Strategic Plan identifies the following key priorities: improving access to health services; addressing certain areas, in particular diabetes and diseases of the circulatory system, eye health, maternal health, infant and child health, and oral health; improving social and emotional wellbeing; increasing the effectiveness of health promotion; and creating an environment supportive of good health. The Aboriginal Health Strategic Plan is further supported by Aboriginal Health Regional Plans, which have been developed in partnership with Aboriginal communities in New South Wales.
A range of issues affect the quality of available data about the health of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of New South Wales. Indigenous status is substantially under-reported in both death and hospital morbidity data in New South Wales, making interpretation of these data especially difficult. In 1996-97 a change in coding practice for Indigenous status in hospital morbidity data resulted in a disproportionately large number of hospital separations being attributed to Indigenous people, and the artefact is evident in some of the health indicators reported in this chapter. Even data about the number of Indigenous people in the population (which are used to calculate rates) must be treated with caution. Estimates of the Indigenous population have risen markedly in successive Censuses, with increasing participation by Indigenous people, and increasing willingness to self-identify as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.
Estimates of the prevalence of health conditions and behaviours among Aboriginal people derived from the available sources of health survey data vary quite markedly. This reflects differences in sampling methods, modes of administration, and in the increasing propensity of Aboriginal people to self-identify and to participate in surveys.
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Policy Division. New South Wales Aboriginal Health Strategic Plan. Sydney: NSW Department of Health, 1999. This document may be viewed at the NSW Department of Health Web site at http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/a/pdf/ahealthstrategic.pdf.
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Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council NSW, NSW Department of Health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. From the Ground Up-Summary, NSW Aboriginal Health Regional Plans. Sydney: NSW Department of Health, 2000.
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The information presented in this report result from analyses of a variety of social and health focused datasets. These datasets originate from a variety of sources including Hunter New England Health, the NSW Department of Health, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The timing of the release of these data to third parties is controlled by the owner of these data. It is therefore possible for these organisations to publish data that they have not yet made available to Hunter New England Population Health for analysis and release. Users should therefore check the publications of these organisations as it is possible that they may have published even more up to date information on Hunter New England than those available in this report. As this report is an ongoing project, the indicators presented will be updated as soon as possible after the release of all datasets to Hunter New England Population Health.
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Hunter New England Population Health. Health in Hunter New England. Hunter New England Area Health Service, 2005. Available at:
http://www.hnehealth.nsw.gov.au/HHNE/atsi/atsi_intro.htm. Accessed (insert date of access).
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Hunter New England Population Health,
Hunter New England Health, with assistance from:
Centre for Epidemiology and Research,
NSW Health.
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Last updated:
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14 December 2005
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