Aboriginal Health

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality is the most pressing health issue facing Australia, according to over 1100 delegates at the 15th National Rural Health

The Morrison Government is again stepping up the fight against the syphilis outbreak affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in central, northern and southern

The 15th National Rural Health Conference to be held in Hobart 24-27th March this year will again have a strong focus on Indigenous Australians’ health and wellbeing.

Curtin University and Managing Director of Indigenous Psychological Services Dr Tracy Westerman have launched a unique scholarship program to support Indigenous students to

A successful and innovative health awareness program for young First Australians will be expanded to reach more communities across Australia. Our Government

Indigenous Australians die from heart disease at double the rate of other Australians, and in some areas, at triple the rate of the rest of the community, according to new

First Nations people will play a fundamental role in developing guidelines to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kidney patient outcomes, with more than $300,000

The National Rural Health Alliance has highlighted the startling figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report Diabetes Indicators for the Australian

Indigenous people in NSW are more likely to wait longer for non-urgent elective surgery than non-indigenous people, a new report shows.

Equitable access and effective use of medicine is critical to closing the gap in health and life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians.

The number of Aboriginal teenage mothers in NSW has dropped and the frequency of immunisation in Aboriginal children has surpassed their non-indigenous counterparts,

Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday than non-Indigenous Australians. Australia's Health

Victoria Grieves, University

The world’s indigenous populations experience significantly higher rates of avoidable vision impairment and a striking lack of support for research to address

Testing Aboriginal, Torres Strait Island, Māori and Pacific people for an irregular heartbeat earlier could spare hundreds of people from stroke each year, a Sydney Heart

An integrated telehealth service could help close the gap for Indigenous Australians with dementia living in rural and remote communities. The University of

Data shows indigenous Australians are still more likely to die from preventable cancers such lung, liver and cervical cancer despite overall improvements in survival.

Helping Aboriginal people live well after stroke is at the heart of a new research project, made possible by a Stroke Foundation grant. The project will assess

The Remote Area Health Corps (RAHC) has placed its 5000th health professional into a remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory (NT), since the program began

By capturing the experiences of Indigenous women and their health workers through ‘yarning’ methodology, a Heart Foundation researcher is helping pregnant Aboriginal