This report provides comprehensive information specific to Western Australia (WA) on:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
• the context of Indigenous health
• various measures of population health status
• selected health conditions
• health risk and protective factors.

This WA Overview draws on statistics and other published and unpublished materials to provide up-to-date, detailed information about the health of Indigenous people in WA in 2013. It highlights a number of improvements in certain aspects of Indigenous health, but underlines that ongoing work is needed to ‘close the gap’ in health status between Indigenous and other Australians.