Tag Archives: Aboriginal health

A plea for support for Aboriginal patients in Central Australia

November 3, 2009 – 4:36 pm

Below is an extract of an open letter that is being circulated to raise awareness of the plight of Aboriginal people in central Australia who are no longer able to access dialysis services in Alice Springs.
It is from Sarah Brown, Manager of the Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku, an organisation that provides support to [...]

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Fine print alert for those concerned about Aboriginal and rural health, and Medicare’s future

July 30, 2009 – 9:11 pm

Thanks to the Croakey reader who has clearly been meticulous in their reading of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report, and has written to sound the alarm that Aboriginal people are not included in the proposal for under-served remote and rural communities to receive top-up funding.
The top-up is aimed at overcoming the [...]

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Aboriginal health recommendations need a lot more work: NACCHO

July 29, 2009 – 4:29 pm

There are a few inconsistencies in the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report. It puts great emphasis on maintaining the role of private health insurance, for example, while also acknowledging that “there are increasing concerns that a two-tiered health system is evolving, in which people without private health insurance have unacceptable delays in access [...]

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New media is a health tonic

July 17, 2009 – 11:57 am

For those with an interest in health and new media, a new book has just landed: Health Communication in the New Media Landscape, by two academics from the University of Missouri-Columbia (one from the health sciences side of things and the other from the journalism school).
It takes a broad look at how new media is [...]

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Some more stories worth knowing about

March 12, 2009 – 10:37 am

Continuing on from earlier posts, here are some more suggestions re stories in Aboriginal health that deserve reporting.
Anthropologist Tess Lea,  the Director of the School for Social and Policy Research at Charles Darwin University and author of a recent book on the culture of public health, Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in northern Australia [...]

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Are journalists interested in building relationships with Aboriginal people and organisations?

March 11, 2009 – 5:09 pm

More food for thought on the issue of how the media covers Aboriginal health and related issues…Kerry Klimm, director of  kinnected – an Indigenous media/communication consultancy, has written about the centrality of relationships to improving this coverage:
“I am an Aboriginal woman who has worked as a journalist in mainstream and Indigenous media for 10 years.  [...]

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The good news about Aboriginal health

March 5, 2009 – 4:15 pm

Inside Story has just published this long article from me examining how the media covers Aboriginal health, the impact this has, and asking whether there may be other, more constructive ways for the media and Aboriginal health advocates to engage.
To keep the conversation going, I’m asking a range of people for some concrete story suggestions [...]

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Health inequalities are no surprise: Gavin Mooney

January 30, 2009 – 2:02 pm

Professor Gavin Mooney writes:
Thanks Mark Ragg for providing more evidence that the Australian health care system is unfair. This needs to be said again and again and again. The only thing that is surprising here is that Mark is surprised.
Of course the richer more articulate middle classes with English as a first
language get better, faster [...]

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