TY - JOUR
T1 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander connection to culture
T2 - Building stronger individual and collective wellbeing
AU - Finlay, Summer May
AU - Canuto, Karla
AU - Canuto, Kootsy
AU - Neal, Nadia
AU - Lovett, Raymond
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - The focus on how to improve the health and wellbeing of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and nations
has largely centred on the social determinants of health,1
which have been defined as:
the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live,
and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping
the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems.2
However, limited analysis from Australia shows that between
half and two-thirds of the current inequity is unexplained
when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous
populations are compared.3-5
What this means is that where an
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person has the same education,
socio-economic position and level of health behaviour, disparity
of health outcomes decreases by about a third. Still, the disparity
is not eliminated.6
To reach equal life chances (as per the stated
national policy goal of Closing the Gap), we need to understand
the currently unexplained 47% of the contribution to the gap.
AB - The focus on how to improve the health and wellbeing of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and nations
has largely centred on the social determinants of health,1
which have been defined as:
the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live,
and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping
the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems.2
However, limited analysis from Australia shows that between
half and two-thirds of the current inequity is unexplained
when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous
populations are compared.3-5
What this means is that where an
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person has the same education,
socio-economic position and level of health behaviour, disparity
of health outcomes decreases by about a third. Still, the disparity
is not eliminated.6
To reach equal life chances (as per the stated
national policy goal of Closing the Gap), we need to understand
the currently unexplained 47% of the contribution to the gap.
KW - Aboriginal
KW - Torres Strait Islander
KW - Collective Wellbeing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105030886&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5694/mja2.51020
DO - 10.5694/mja2.51020
M3 - Article
SN - 0025-729X
VL - 214
SP - S12-S16
JO - Medical Journal of Australia
JF - Medical Journal of Australia
IS - S8
ER -