Report
On 20 March 1979, the Standing Commitee on Aboriginal Affairs
tabled its report on the entitled Aboriginal health.
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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 14 chapters and
24 appendices.
Aboriginal health
Part A:
Preliminary pages up to Chapter 9 (PDF 6479KB)
Foreword, Committee Membership, Contents, List of
Recommendations
Ch1: Introduction
Prevalence of disease suffered by Aboriginals
Ch2: Introductory
remarks
Ch3: Mortality and morbidity
Ch4: Need for Aboriginal health statistics
Environmental, social and cultural factors
Ch5: Introductory remarks
Ch6: Physical environmental factors
Ch7: Social
factors
Ch8: Cultural factors
Delivery of existing health care programs for
Aboriginals
Ch9: Description of existing health care
programs for Aboriginals
Part B: Chapter 10 to Appendix 24 (end) (PDF
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Ch10: Effectiveness of
existing health care programs and the adequacy of Western
European-type health services
Ch11: Aboriginal self-determination in health care
Ch12: Aboriginal involvement in the delivery of health care
Ch13: Integration of and co-operation between existing
services
Employment of personnel concerned with Aboriginal
health
Ch14: Employment of personnel concerned with
Aboriginal health
Appendix 1: List of
witnesses
Appendix 2: Communities visited by the Committee
Appendix 3: Graph - infact mortality rates
Appendix 4:
Aboriginal vital rates
Appendix 5: Infant mortality rate
Appendix 6: Hospital morbidity, principal condition, Western
Australia 1971 to 1976 - Aboriginals
Appendix 7: Hospital morbidity, principal condition, Western
Australia 1971 to 1976 - Non-Aboriginals
Appendix 8: Hospital morbidity, principal condition, Western
Australia 1971 to 1976 - Aboriginals - rate per 1000
population
Appendix 9: Hospital morbidity, principal condition, Western
Australia 1971 to 1976 - Non-Aboriginals - rate per 1000
population
Appendix 10: Hospital morbidity, principal condition, Northern
Territory 1974 to 1976
Appendix 11: Hospital morbidity, principal condition, Northern
Territory 1974 to 1976 - rate per 1000 population
Appendix 12:
Length of stay in hospital - Western Australia 1971-76
Appendix 13: Northern Territory hospitals - length of stay in
hospital - 1966-67 and 1977-78
Appendix 14: Queensland - avergae percentage of total cases
(inpatients and outpatients) for the 10 most prevalent conditions
for all ages for 14 Aboriginal communities and
missions 1976, 1977
Appendix 15: Percentage of total hospital admissions for
Aboriginals to seven hospitals by major diagnosis - New South
Wales, July - December 1976
Appendix 16: Method of water supply to Aboriginal communities -
second half of 1977
Appendix 17: Method of sewerage disposal in Aboriginal communities
- second half of 1977
Appendix 18: Method of electricity supply to Aboriginal communities
- second half of 1977
Appendix 19: Shelter
in Aboriginal communities - second half of 1977
Appendix 20: Outlay
on Aboriginal affairs by the Commonwealth Government
Appendix 21: Grants
to the states for Aboriginal health
Appendix 22: Direct expenditure
on Aboriginal health in the Northern Territory
Appendix 23: Policy
statement on Aboriginal health worker training, Department of
Health, Northern Territory
Appendix 24: Declaration
- International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR,
1978 - WHO and UNICEF