NSW Community Health Review

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders

  1. Health prevention activities and chronic disease treatment and management
  2. Early intervention via Health promotion and education.
  3. health staff, teachers, education of both staff and clientele, awareness of needs
  4. Health prevention, antenatal care through....
  5. Health Promotion, Education and jobs
  6. Health promotion and intervention targeted disease/conditions eg diabetes, oral health
  7. Cultural competency of staff providing services
  8. culturally appropriate services delivered by well trained professionals
  9. Health promotion and prevention, easier access to all health services
  10. Establishing support systems to promote, prevent and treat health issues
  11. Life long care plan with surveillance and recall for early id and intervention
  12. training & educating the local communities to lead their own health management
  13. HEALTH PREVENTION AND PROMOTION TREATMENT AND CONTINUING CARE
  14. coordinated community based responses that are engaged with the community, systems that work and are accessible
  15. Focus on developing expertise in the workforce involved with providing health services, particularly management of service delivery and staff
  16. Violence prevention, family counselling, support to attend mainstream services, formal links with AMS & mainstream services
  17. Health Promotion, Health Prevention, tracking, recall and surveillance to prevent/monitor chronic conditions
  18. Health promotion which includes needs assessments; investigations to patterns of disease and social determinants of health; treatment as needed and targeted, appropriate ongoing care
  19. Targeted positions within services i.e. employing Indigenous workers within teams
  20. access and flexibility - establishing community links with the local communities
  21. Prevention
  22. Violence prevention
  23. a greater skilled indigenous work force
  24. Service focused on providing community responses to issues of family violence and promotion of healthy relationships
  25. Health Promotion, Illness prevention, Chronic Care management
  26. Health Promotion to target precontemplation stage for issues as diabetes, child abuse and other issues facing this community.
  27. Health promotion/prevention
  28. stop the OM project, a waste of money and time reporting it.
  29. Aboriginal workforce development & mandatory cultural awareness training for non-indigenous workers
  30. More communication and follow up between health services
  31. health promotion and education
  32. Some health promotion but mostly health prevention initiatives to targeted at risk sectors of the Aboriginal communities. AHEO's as the established links to the Aboriginal community and then partnering with other health professionals for particular health prevention initiatives.
  33. increasing the sense of efficacy and choice of this group; encourage to become consumers not passive recipients of services
  34. Health promotion and health prevention, interagency collaborations e.g. healthy housing in NZ; one stop primary health care with access to finance, cheap fruit & veges, well baby clinic, excersise, Centrelink & housing ALL IN ONE BUILDING
  35. Consultation with community to ascertain specific needs and delivery of programs that meet these needs.
  36. Early prevention and treatment od D&A issues.
  37. Allow extra time possibly allow time for one on one - simplify language, plain English easier to understand
  38. Increasing the number of participants from the community actively taking up roles that promote and support their own community' s health and wellbeing
  39. Supporting Aboriginal people to look after Aboriginal people - but not employing Aboriginal people simply because they are Aboriginal. Too many times staff have been employed and they do not have the skills to do the study or work required. If Aboriginal people are employed they need to be well supported to reach their potential to be of any use to their communities - and not supported within existing resources!
  40. training of local people - incentives to remain >3 yrs with succession training for continuity and stability of service provision
  41. community based programs for prevention, education and referral
  42. Community based intensive, sustained early intervention services
  43. Early childhood intervention and maternity services. Also violence prevention services