Report
Priority evidence-practice gaps in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing care: final report
Healthcare stakeholders in diverse roles and organisations provided input to interpret continuous quality improvement data on mental health and wellbeing care, using data from twenty-one health centres. The findings and key messages are relevant to healthcare policy and planning. This report presents: 1. Priority gaps in mental health and wellbeing care 2. Barriers and enablers...
Report
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander maternal health care: final report
This report provides up-to-date and comprehensive data on the quality of maternal health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from ninety-one primary care health centres across Australia. The health centres include community-controlled and government managed health services in different Australian jurisdictions. Teams in these health centres conducted audits of pregnancy and post-natal care...
Report
Preventive health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: final report
This report provides up-to date and comprehensive data on the quality of preventive care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from 137 primary health centres across Australia. Incorporating perspectives from a wide range of stakeholders on priority evidence-practice gaps and barriers, enablers and strategies for achieving improvement it should be useful for stimulating discussion...
Journal article
System level action required for wide-scale improvement in quality of primary health care
What are the common barriers, enablers and strategies to improving health outcomes in Indigenous chronic illness care and child health? Stakeholders interpreted aggregated quality improvement data on Indigenous chronic illness care and child health, enabling the research team to identify important ‘drivers’ and strategies for better health outcomes. These included effective staff recruitment and retention...
Journal article
Determinants and gaps in preventive care delivery for Indigenous Australians: a cross-sectional analysis
Background: Potentially preventable chronic diseases are the greatest contributor to the health gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians. Preventive care is important for earlier detection and control of chronic disease, and a number of recent policy initiatives have aimed to enhance delivery of preventive care.