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Submission to the Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board
(Date submitted: 22 August 2008)
The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) Review.
Submission to the Higher Education Review Panel
(Date submitted: 31 July 2008)
The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) welcomes the establishment of the Higher Education Review Panel. AIDA believes that culturally safe improvements to the education and training systems for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will make significant inroads into ‘Closing the Gap’, addressing the disparities in health, housing, education and employment faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Submission to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission
(Date submitted: 3 July 2008)
The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) welcomes the establishment of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) and notes that one of the twelve challenges set for the Commission is to close the gap in Indigenous health status. The improvement in the status of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is the most pressing challenge for health reform in Australia.
Submission to the Senate Inquiry
(Date submitted: 10 August 2007)
Submission to the Senate Inquiry in relation to the Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007; the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill 2007; and the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Bill 2007.
AIDA wishes to make the following points in relation to the above legislation, currently under consideration:
- AIDA defends and upholds the protection of all children
- Valuing existing Indigenous health expertise
- Indigenous health in Australia
- Health Workforce
- Learning from existing good practice in Indigenous health
- Land and culture is important for Indigenous health
- Risks posed by the proposed legislation
- Accountability and Evaluation
Submission to the Mid-Term Review of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce National Strategic Framework (WSF)
(Date submitted: 22 March 2006)
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce National Strategic Framework (WSF) has been a critical document for drawing widespread attention to the central role that a competent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce plays in improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and well being outcomes. The WSF mid-term review provides an opportunity to build on this work and re-focus and strengthen the remainder of the life of the Framework. AIDA believes the consolidation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander WSF requires the following elements:
- Engagement and collaborative action across
all State/Territory and the Australian Government departments,
particularly Education and Health
- Pathways in to the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander health workforce across the life spectrum, from
early childhood (especially primary and secondary school),
through to mature age entry
- Multiple options for participation in the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce,
including nursing, Aboriginal Health Workers, allied health and
medicine
- Appropriate and comprehensive integration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health curriculum in to all medical, health sciences and other health related degrees, as demonstrated by the CDAMS
Indigenous Health Curriculum Framework
- Identified, sustainable, measurable and
action focused approaches in all Government initiatives and
programs, including from primary, secondary and tertiary
education
Submission to the Medical Education Study, Department of Education, Science and Training, Medical Education in , what makes for success?
(Date submitted: 21 March 2006)
AIDA believes that four core elements in Australian medical education will make for success:
- Vertical and horizontal integration of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health curriculum, through
undergraduate and postgraduate medical education
- Recruitment, retention and graduation of
Indigenous medical students
- Accreditation and assessment guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health curriculum, teaching and cultural safety in Australian medical schools and medical colleges and
- Collaboration between education and health
policy makers, programs and providers to establish early
education interventions that open pathways for success for
Indigenous health medical education
Submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Petrol Sniffing in Remote Aboriginal Communities
(Date submitted: 11 February 2006)
AIDA strongly believes that all levels of Government – Australian, State/Territory and local - need to work together with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to respond in a positive, coordinated and holistic way to the continuing poor state of our health and the whole-of-life needs of our people. AIDA supports the Australian Government’s Eight Point Regional Strategy for Central Australia and believes it is a comprehensive strategy that works towards longer term, holistic solutions, while also addressing the immediate petrol sniffing situation.
Submission to the Productivity Commission Health Workforce Study
(Date submitted: 25 November2005)
AIDA strongly believes that the Australian health system must respond fully and appropriately to the continuing poor state of health and address the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Workforce capacity is able to have major impacts on health improvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The development and attainment of a highly competent workforce has two dimensions:
- skilled and culturally safe Indigenous health workforce (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) and
- increased numbers of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people in health - Indigenous doctors, nurses,
health administrators, health workers, doctors and other allied
health professionals
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