- ‘An urgent issue’: Diabetes’ impact on First Peoples set for focus at international congress
- Yarn with me: Implementing Clinical Yarning in the Midwest
- Major milestone for First Nations medical pioneer
- Connected Beginnings launches in Kununurra with Mother’s Day picnic at White Gum Park
- Sector Jobs
- Events and training
The NACCHO Sector News is a platform we use to showcase the important work being done in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, focusing on the work of NACCHO, NACCHO members and NACCHO affiliates.
We also share a curated selection of news stories that are of likely interest to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector, broadly.
‘An urgent issue’: Diabetes’ impact on First Peoples set for focus at international congress
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience a disproportionately high rate of diabetes, being three times more likely to live with the condition than non-Indigenous Australians.
In 2018-19, around 7.9% of First Nations Australians had diabetes, with over a third of adults affected. This chronic disease was responsible for 7.3% of deaths among Indigenous Australians in the same period, with Type 2 diabetes being a major contributor to illness and death, particularly in remote areas.
This disparity will be a key focus at next year’s International Diabetes Federation Western Pacific Region Congress in Naarm.
Read the full article here.
Patients receiving treatment for diabetes. Image: The Australian.
Yarn with me: Implementing Clinical Yarning in the Midwest
Training in an innovative framework designed to improve communication with Aboriginal patients is to be rolled out across the Midwest.
The Clinical Yarning model was developed in 2016 by a team from the Western Australian Centre for Rural Health (WACRH) and The University of Western Australia and based on the research yarning framework developed by Professor Dawn Bessarab from the UWA Medical School.
WACRH Clinical Yarning project lead Associate Professor Ivan Lin said the framework had shown promising results in pilot tests, with increased clinician knowledge, confidence and skills communicating with Aboriginal patients.
Read the full article here.
sources: WACRH Clinical Yarning project
Major milestone for First Nations medical pioneer
The country’s only Indigenous co-owned medical imaging provider has marked a significant milestone for regional healthcare in Western Australia.
Spartan First Imaging has celebrated the installation of a Siemens Healthineers SOMATOM go.Top CT scanner at its Kalgoorlie clinic.
The investment would help deliver advanced, high-resolution diagnostic imaging to the expansive Goldfields region, while advancing a sustainable, community-first approach to care.
The installation represented a growing demand for high-quality, sustainable diagnostic imaging services in the Kalgoorlie region, where Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities face distinct healthcare challenges, compounded by the demands of a dense mining workforce and the prevalence of acute injuries and complex chronic conditions.
Read the full article here.
Image: Spartan First.
Connected Beginnings launches in Kununurra with Mother’s Day picnic at White Gum Park
Kununurra mums will be celebrated at a special Mother’s Day event at White Gum Park where they can have a free professional photo shoot with their children.
Connected Beginnings is organising a Mother’s Day Picnic in the Park which will include mini family photoshoots, pampering sessions, children’s activities and a barbecue lunch.
The program’s early years co-ordinator Calyca Rogers said the Mother’s Day picnic would be the community launch of Connected Beginnings. The program aims to connect Aboriginal families with the health, education and family services available to make sure their children, aged zero to five, are meeting their developmental milestones.
Read the full article here.
Gloria Djanghara, Zhemirah Roberts, Zherahn Ward, Leilani Wilson Credit: Connected Beginings
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