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Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Information: Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 10274, p 10274 (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Despite significant developments in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health information over the last 25 years, many challenges remain. There are still uncertainties about the accuracy of estimates of the summary measure of life expectancy, and methods to estimate changes in life expectancy over time are unreliable because of changing patterns of identification. Far too little use is made of the wealth of information that is available, and formal systems for systematically using that information are often vestigial to non-existent. Available information has focussed largely on traditional biomedical topics and too little on access to, expenditure on, and availability of services required to improve health outcomes, and on the underpinning issues of social and emotional wellbeing. It is of concern that statistical artefacts may have been misrepresented as indicating real progress in key health indices. Challenges and opportunities for the future include improving the accuracy of estimation of life expectancy, provision of community level data, information on the availability and effectiveness of health services, measurement of the underpinning issues of racism, culture and social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB), enhancing the interoperability of data systems, and capacity building and mechanisms for Indigenous data governance. There is little point in having information unless it is used, and formal mechanisms for making full use of information in a proper policy/planning cycle are urgently required.
- Subjects :
- management use of information
Capacity Building
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
Indigenous health measurement
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Interoperability
misleading statistics
Review
Indigenous
Data governance
Racism
Health Services, Indigenous
Humans
Sociology
Estimation
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Australia
Capacity building
Public relations
Formal system
Identification (information)
data sovereignty
governance
Life expectancy
life expectancy
Medicine
business
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Forecasting
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16617827 and 16604601
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 10274
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....71e6fe7512e4cf4da14c07ec1445e65c