one+page+report+about+health+on+aboriginies

the health of aborigines is vastly different to the life and health of the rest of Australia. In the NATSIHS 2004–05:
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 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.hreoc.gov.au/images/site/dot-home.gif); background-position: 10px 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 25px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">22% reported their health as fair or poor.

After adjusting for differences in the age structures of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, Indigenous Australians were twice as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to report their health as fair or poor in 2004–05. Indigenous Australians aged 15 years and over in non-remote areas were more likely than those in remote areas to report fair or poor health (23% compared with 19%)

Under the life expectation estimation formula adopted by the ABS in 2003, Indigenous males' life expectation was estimated to be 59.4 years over 1996-2001, while female life expectation was estimated to be 64.8 years: a life expectation inequality gap when compared to the general Australian population of approximately 17 years for the same five year period. The ABS has not released a life expectation estimate for Indigenous peoples for the years 2002 on

the death rates of Aborinies is on the decrease as health and equality for them is increasing. Chronic diseases are a major problem in tribes as they are often cut off from so society and medical attention is scarce. Chronic diseases, and in particular cardiovascular disease, are the biggest single killers of Indigenous peoples and an area where the Indigenous and non-Indigenous health equality gap is most apparent. The rates of death from the five main groups of chronic diseases compared to the non-Indigenous population over 2001-05 is set out in Table 2 as a Standardised Mortality Rate (SMR). The SMR is calculated by dividing recorded Indigenous deaths by expected Indigenous deaths (with the latter based on the age, sex and cause specific rates for non-Indigenous Australians).
 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.hreoc.gov.au/images/site/dot-home.gif); background-position: 10px 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 25px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">death rates from cardiovascular disease have fallen 30% in Australia since 1991, and 70% in the last 35-years; and
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 * ~ **Cause of Death** ||~ **Males SMR** ||~ **Females SMR** ||
 * < **Diseases of the circulatory system** ||< 3.2 ||< 2.7 ||
 * < **Neoplasms (including cancer)** ||< 1.5 ||< 1.6 ||
 * < **Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases** ||< 7.5 ||< 10.1 ||
 * < **Diabetes** ||< 10.8 ||< 14.5 ||
 * < **Diseases of the respiratory system** ||< 4.3 ||< 3.6 ||
 * < **Diseases of the digestive system** ||< 5.8 ||< 5.1 ||

