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Week 6: Closing The Gap
Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:22

 

We are all aware of the massive discrepancies in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. The factors contributing to this health gap are complicated to say the least, and date back to the first contact between European explorers and Aboriginal people. Despite the rather large amount of time, effort and money put into solving this issue, very little headway has really been made, especially when compared to similar situations in other countries.  This week Indigenous speakers discuss all these issues as well as changing Indigenous health services to a community-based model.


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