Australia And New Zealand Journal Of Public Health

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Year: 2007

Author(s): Cheng, M.H.

Book/Journal: The Lancet

Volume and Page Info: Vol. 370, No. 3, pp.1533-1536

Type: Journal

Topics:

Training Indigenous Health Practitioners

Publisher: The Lancet

Abstract

As a group, indigenous Australians are much less healthy and more likely to die at younger ages than their non-indigenous counterparts. Training more indigenous people as health workers could help to reduce these startling inequalities, say experts. Margaret Harris Cheng reports.