Activity in this area
Data
Australian Bureau of Statistics. 4727.0.55.001 – Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: Updated Results, Australia, 2012-13. Canberra: ABS; 2014 [Accessed May 2020]; Available at: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4727.0.55.001main+features12012-13
Australian Bureau of Statistics. 4715.0 - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey, 2018-19. Canberra: ABS; 2019; [Accessed May 2020]; Available at: https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4715.0Main+Features12018-19?OpenDocument
Policy
National Health and Medical Research Council. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, Adolescents and Children in Australia (2013). Canberra: NHMRC; 2015 [Accessed May 2020]; Available at: https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines-publications/n57
Australian Department of Health and Ageing. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013-2023. Canberra; 2013 [Accessed May 2020]; Available at: https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/B92E980680486C3BCA257BF0001BAF01/$File/health-plan.pdf
Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council, 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework 2017 Report, AHMAC, Canberra [Accessed May 2020]; Available at: https://www.niaa.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/2017-health-performance-framework-report_1.pdf
Department of Health, Implementation Plan for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013–2023, Australian Government, Canberra, 2015 [Accessed May 2020]; Available at: https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/indigenous-implementation-plan
Cancer Australia. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cancer Framework. 2015 Available from: https://canceraustralia.gov.au/publications-and-resources/cancer-australia-publications/overlay-context=affected-cancer/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-people/national-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-cancer-framework
Cancer Australia. Optimal Care Pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer. 2018 Available from: https://canceraustralia.gov.au/publications-and-resources/cancer-australia-publications/optimal-care-pathway-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-people-cancer
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet – bodyweight: information about policies and strategies, resources, publications, programs and organisations that address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander body weight.
References
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