Womens Health Week Monday 3 to Sunday 9 September 2018
Global week for action #NCD’s
NACCHO AGM 2018 Brisbane Oct 30—Nov 2 Registrations now open
My Health Records webinars from Consumer Health Forum
National Stroke Week – Monday 3 to Sunday 9 September 2018.
Wiyi Yani U Thangani Women’s Voices project.
NATSIHWA National Professional Development Symposium 2018
AIDA Conference 2018 Vision into Action
CATSINaM Professional Development Conference
Womens Health Week Monday 3 to Sunday 9 September 2018
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My family’s wellbeing is so important to me and, as an Indigenous woman, I am equally passionate about tackling the appalling health and life expectancy statistics of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As an ambassador for Jean Hailes and Women’s Health Week, I feel I can be part of the solution by encouraging Indigenous women to take the time to put their health first.
You can put your health first too by being part of this year’s Women’s Health Week from 3-7 September. It’s fun and free. Please sign up!
Shelley Ware Womens Health Week Ambassador
Read over 350 Aboriginal Womens Health articles published by NACCHO over the past 6 years
Four years ago I was delighted to become one of the first ambassadors for Jean Hailes’ Women’s Health Week. I am still so proud to be involved, helping to promote the importance of good health.
Growing up, sport was a natural part of our family life. I played netball, participated in little athletics, swimming – even touch footy. My Dad was a professional runner and Mum played netball too so if we weren’t at sport, we were watching our parents play.
My childhood was pretty idyllic until the awful day when my beloved Dad suffered a heart attack and passed away at the age of 51. A few years later, Mum was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 50 following a routine mammogram. Thankfully she beat it and is still doing well today.
I have a lot to watch out for in my yearly health checks, so it’s important I stay fit and healthy.
I have suffered from endometriosis, which, as well as being extremely painful, made conceiving my beautiful son Taj that much harder for my husband Steven and I.
My family’s wellbeing is so important to me and, as an Indigenous woman, I am equally passionate about tackling the appalling health and life expectancy statistics of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As an ambassador for Jean Hailes and Women’s Health Week, I feel I can be part of the solution by encouraging Indigenous women to take the time to put their health first.
You can put your health first too by being part of this year’s Women’s Health Week from 3-7 September. It’s fun and free. Please sign up!
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Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance
The Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (ACDPA) brings together five leading non-government health organisations in the primary prevention of chronic disease in Australia.
Cancer Council Australia, Diabetes Australia, National Heart Foundation of Australia, Kidney Health Australia, and the Stroke Foundation work together, with emphasis on changes to the food and physical environments to:
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improve nutrition
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increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behaviour,
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reduce unhealthy weight at a population level.
Chronic diseases are Australia’s greatest health challenge, and leading cause of illness, disability and death. However, much burden could be prevented through improving nutrition, increasing physical activity and decreasing overweight and obesity.
About us
The Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (ACDPA) brings together Cancer Council Australia, Diabetes Australia, National Heart Foundation of Australia, Kidney Health Australia, and the Stroke Foundation to provide an independent voice addressing shared modifiable risk factors for chronic disease.
What is chronic disease?
Chronic diseases are generally long lasting conditions with persistent effects. These include cancer, heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and kidney disease. Chronic diseases are the leading cause of illness, disability, and death in Australia, and accounted for around 90% of all deaths in 2011 (1).
One in two Australians have a chronic disease and almost one quarter have at least two conditions (2).
However, much chronic disease is actually preventable. Poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and overweight and obesity are common modifiable risk factors.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare estimates that around one third of total disease burden could be prevented by reducing modifiable risk factors. Globally, the World Health Organization estimates that at least 80% of premature heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and over 40% of cancer could be prevented.
Find out How ACDPA works
Global week for action #NCD’s
With the digital world switched on to talk about NCDs, the first Global Week for Action on NCDs – from Monday 3 September to Sunday 9 September – will provide everyone, everywhere the opportunity to mobilise on the ground in the lead-up to the HLM on NCDs, under the theme ENOUGH. Our Health. Our Right. Right Now.
This will be a global opportunity to talk to each other, to leaders, to media, to crowds, to the world about what works well and what needs to change to ensure a transition from commitment to tangible actions that not only yield reportable improvements in NCD targets and outcomes, but result in the improvement of health and lives of all people in all places.
The opportunities are endless. Possible activities include organising a meeting, community conversation, picnic, fun run, dance party, or art competition. The week is your chance to do something achievable, appropriate, relevant and impactful where you live, but linked to a global movement.
- It’s time to say ENOUGH.
- It’s time to celebrate progress and leadership.
- It’s time to move from commitment to action.
- It’s Time to Deliver action on NCDs.
More information is cavailable on the NCD Alliance led initiative here.
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Promoting inclusion of #Indigenouspeoples & Indigenous-led solutions in global #NCDs discourse #IndigenousNCDs #WeAreIndigenous#UNDRIP #BeatNCDs #EnoughNCDs
NACCHO AGM 2018 Brisbane Oct 30—Nov 2 Registrations now open
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The NACCHO Members’ Conference and AGM provides a forum for the Aboriginal community controlled health services workforce, bureaucrats, educators, suppliers and consumers to:
- Present on innovative local economic development solutions to issues that can be applied to address similar issues nationally and across disciplines
- Have input and influence from the ‘grassroots’ into national and state health policy and service delivery
- Demonstrate leadership in workforce and service delivery innovation
- Promote continuing education and professional development activities essential to the Aboriginal community controlled health services in urban, rural and remote Australia
- Promote Aboriginal health research by professionals who practice in these areas and the presentation of research findings
- Develop supportive networks
- Promote good health and well-being through the delivery of health services to and by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people throughout Australia.
Conference Website Link
My Health Records webinars from Consumer Health Forum
The recording of our second webinar that gives an overview of digital health in Australia and where My Health Record fits in the scheme of things is now up on our YouTube channel:
You can register here: http://www.webcasts.com.au/chf300818/. Next week, we have an in depth look at the risks.
If you have questions or thoughts about either, please use the links below to send them to us.
Upcoming Webinars
Risks of My Health Record
Thursday, 6 September
12:30pm-1:30pm AEST
Ask a question | Register to attend | Find out more
Digital inclusion, health literacy and My Health Record
Thursday, 13 September
3pm-4pm AEST
Ask a question | Register to attend | Find out more
Consumer Estimates: My Health Record
Thursday, 4 October
12:30pm-1:30pm AEST
Register to attend | Find out more
National Stroke Week – Monday 3 to Sunday 9 September 2018.
Risky reality of stroke in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Stroke Foundation has backed a call for urgent action to prevent stroke in Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
This follows today’s release of a world-first study by the Australian National University (ANU), highlighting the harrowing reality of stroke and heart attack risk in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The research found around one-third to a half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in their 40s, 50s and 60s were at high risk of future heart attack or stroke. It also found risk increased substantially with age and starts earlier than previously thought.
Stroke Foundation Chief Executive Officer Sharon McGowan said the research results were frightening.
“We knew the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community had a greater risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease, but the rate was well above the non-indigenous population,” Ms McGowan said.
“Alarmingly, the study also found high levels of risk were occurring in people younger than 35.
“Steps must be taken immediately to increase stroke awareness and access to health checks through targeted action. Federal and state government must come together to address this issue.”
National guidelines currently recommend heart health and stroke risk screening be provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 35 and over. This study highlights the need for screening in much younger people.
Ms McGowan said there was one stroke every nine minutes in Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were overrepresented in stroke statistics.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were twice as likely to be hospitalised with stroke and 1.4 times as likely to die from stroke than non-indigenous Australians.
“Stroke can be prevented, it can be treated and it can be beaten. We must act now to stem the tide of this devastating disease,’’ she said.
“Federal and State Government must do more to empower our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to take control of their health and prevent stroke and heart disease – we must deliver targeted education on what stroke is, how to prevent it and the importance of accessing treatment at the first sign of stroke.”
Ms McGowan said stroke could be prevented by managing your blood pressure and cholesterol, eating healthily, exercising, not smoking and limiting alcohol consumption
Every step counts towards a healthy life.
This year, Stroke Foundation is encouraging Australians to discover how easy it is to fit healthy habits into their day and do their part to prevent stroke.
It’s estimated that more than 80 percent of strokes can be prevented simply by managing risk factors and living a healthy lifestyle. There are some risk factors for stroke which can’t be prevented like age, family history and prior stroke. If you’re male, your risk is also higher.
There are two ways to approach this: first by talking to your doctor and secondly by taking ownership of your own health.
Take charge of your own health:
- Eat well.
- Stay active.
- Be smoke free.
- Moderate alcohol intake.
- Visit your doctor for a health check to help manage blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and atrial fibrillation (irregular heart beat).
Read more about stroke prevention
Wiyi Yani U Thangani Women’s Voices project.
June Oscar AO and her team are excited to hear from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls across the country as a part of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Women’s Voices project.
Whilst we will not be able to get to every community, we hope to hear from as many women and girls as possible through this process. If we are not coming to your community we encourage you to please visit the Have your Say! page of the website to find out more about the other ways to have your voice included through our survey and submission process.
We will be hosting public sessions as advertised below but also a number of private sessions to enable women and girls from particularly vulnerable settings like justice and care to participate.
Details about current, upcoming and past gatherings appears below, however it is subject to change. We will update this page regularly with further details about upcoming gatherings closer to the date of the events.
Please get in touch with us via email wiyiyaniuthangani@humanrights.gov.au or phone on (02) 9284 9600 if you would like more information.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Current gatherings
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls are invited to register for one of the following gatherings
Upcoming gatherings
If your community is listed below and you would like to be involved in planning for our visit or would like more information, please write to us at wiyiyaniuthangani@humanrights.gov.au or phone (02) 9284 9600.
| Location | Dates |
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| Alice Springs | September 2018 |
| Tennant Creek | September 2018 |
| Yarrabah | September 2018 |
| Weipa | September 2018 |
| Torres Strait Islands | October 2018 |
| Port Headland | October 2018 |
| Newman | October 2018 |
| Dubbo | TBC |
| Brewarrina | TBC |
| Rockhampton | TBC |
| Longreach | TBC |
| Kempsey | TBC |
NATSIHWA National Professional Development Symposium 2018
We’re excited to release the dates for the 2018 National Professional Development Symposium to be held in Alice Springs on 2nd-4th October. More details are to be released in the coming weeks; a full sponsorship prospectus and registration logistics will be advertised asap via email and newsletter.
This years Symposium will be focussed on upskilling our Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners through a series of interactive workshops. Registrants will be able to participate in all workshops by rotating in groups over the 2 days. The aim of the symposium is to provide the registrants with new practical skills to take back to communities and open up a platform for Health Workers/Practitioners to network with other Individuals in the workforce from all over Australia.
We look forward to announcing more details soon!
AIDA Conference 2018 Vision into Action
Building on the foundations of our membership, history and diversity, AIDA is shaping a future where we continue to innovate, lead and stay strong in culture. It’s an exciting time of change and opportunity in Indigenous health.
The AIDA conference supports our members and the health sector by creating an inspiring networking space that engages sector experts, key decision makers, Indigenous medical students and doctors to join in an Indigenous health focused academic and scientific program.
AIDA recognises and respects that the pathway to achieving equitable and culturally-safe healthcare for Indigenous Australians is dynamic and complex. Through unity, leadership and collaboration, we create a future where our vision translates into measureable and significantly improved health outcomes for our communities. Now is the time to put that vision into action.
CATSINaM Professional Development Conference
Venue: Hilton Adelaide
Location: 233 Victoria Square, Adelaide, SA
Timing: 8:30am – 5:30pm
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