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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

Can you please explain or elaborate on what treatment of the indigenous population today you are referring to. Truly I am missing a important point here.

Aboriginal health statitstics
2..3 Aboriginal infant mortality rate compared to other Australians. 80% die under the age of one.

3 Aboriginal death rate compared to the total Australian population.

1.95 Rate at which Aboriginal people are hospitalised compared to non-Indigenous people.

125 Number of Indigenous doctors practicing in Australia, compared to 60,000 non-Aboriginal doctors [13].

44% Percentage of adult (15-plus) Aboriginal people reporting ‘excellent’ or ‘very good’ health in 2008, unchanged from 2002 [20].

76% Percentage of Indigenous infants (aged 0-3 years) who were breast-fed in 2008 [20].

36 Times sexually transmitted Gonorrhoea is more prevalent in Indigenous communities than in other communities [17].

30 Times Aboriginal children are more likely to suffer from anaemia and malnutrition due to iron deficiencies [16].

7..12 Times 25-34 year-old Aboriginal Australians are more likely to die from heart disease than non-Aboriginal Australians [11].

25% Percentage of Aboriginal people who reported having used an illicit substance in the last 12 months (stable rate between 2002 and 2008) [9].

1.6 Times Aboriginal people are more likely to have recently used cannabis than non-Aboriginal people [6].

0.8% Percentage of the overall Federal health expenditure in 2009 which was spent on Aboriginal health [24].

30% Percentage of adults in Aboriginal communities suffering from type-2 diabetes [3].

13% Number of Indigenous homes having functioning water, waste, cooking and cleaning facilities (of 4,000 Indigenous homes surveyed during 1998-1999 in the Northern Territory).

6.5 Times an Indigenous youth aged 15 to 24 is more likely to have sexually transmitted infections [1].

12.4% Percentage of Aboriginal people aged over 45 years with dementia. Same rate for non-Aboriginal people: 2.6% [14].

60% Percentage Aboriginal people are more likely to die from all cancer types than non-Indigenous people [8]. Cancer is the second leading cause of death for Aboriginal people.

6 Times sexually transmitted Chlamydia is more prevalent in Indigenous communities than in other communities [17].

10 Times Aboriginal people living in remote communities are more likely to develop dementia than people living in countries such as Africa, India or Indonesia [15].

5% Percentage of clients of disability services in 2008/9 who were Aboriginal. Same figure for the NT: 50% [7].

83% Percentage of Aboriginal children in the NT who had some decayed, missing or filled teeth. Average waiting time between referral and receipt of service: just over 14 months [12].

References for above
. www.hollows.org [1] Koori Mail 394 p.11 [2] Koori Mail, 413, p.6 [3] ‘Diabetes crisis is forum target’, Koori Mail 473 p.14 [4] ‘Service makes a difference’, Koori Mail 510 p.23 [5] ‘Hepatitis danger in the spotlight’, Koori Mail 507 p.51 [6] ‘Grim findings in drug survey’, Koori Mail 507 p.30 [7] ‘More utilising disability help’, Koori Mail 493 p.53 [8] ‘Study looks at cancer death rates’, Koori Mail 474 p.32 [9] ‘Small smoking fall but grog ‘a worry”, Koori Mail 494 p.22 [10] ‘Tooth decay fears raised’, Koori Mail 507 p.4 [11] ‘Art with heart heads to Townsville’, Koori Mail 487 p.46 [12] ‘NT study confirms problems’, Koori Mail 497 p.51 [13] ‘A column by our own doctors’, Koori Mail 438 p.54 [14] ‘Dementia danger’, Koori Mail 412 p.49 [15] ‘Dementia dangers’, Koori Mail 487 p.9 [16] ‘Ironing out anaemia’, Koori Mail 484 p.57 [17] ‘Sexual health plan is a first’, Koori Mail 479 p.66 [18] ‘A shamed nation turns a blind eye’, SMH 16/11/2009 [19] ‘Action urged on mental health’, Koori Mail 511 p.42 [20] ‘Gains, but the gap is still wide, study finds’, Koori Mail 463 p.9 [21] ‘Conference gets to heart of solutions’, Koori Mail 504 p.47 [22] ‘What’s in a name?’, Koori Mail 515 p.36 [23] ‘Programs win report praise’, Koori Mail 519 p.68 [24] ‘Call for more accountability’, Koori Mail 466 p.11 [25] ‘I didn’t feel a thing – Part 2′, Hepatitis NSW: Transmission Magazine #9, 9/8/2011 p.23
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