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Indigenous health expenditure trends are obscured amid myriad medical indicators and reports on Indigenous Australians’ health. The Australian Government’s Closing the Gap strategy seeks health equality for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander peoples. However, neglecting the economics of the strategy perpetuates poor system performance as financial and resource constraints on individuals, and increasingly on the public health system, are ignored.
Summary: This report provides evidence that Aboriginal health services run by Aboriginal people: • Provide jobs for more than 3,200 Aboriginal people (over 5,000 in total) and are the main source of Aboriginal employment in many communities; • Boost education levels of Aboriginal people with onsite training and genuine career paths; • Provide wages and salaries higher than the average Aboriginal Australian income; and • Provide the preferred method of primary health delivery to the majority...
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