This program focuses on the important role primary health care providers can play in the prevention of Indigenous child diseases and promoting good health outcomes, particularly in rural and remote communities.

The program covers antenatal care, and the treatment of childhood conditions such as anaemia and growth failure. There is also a special focus on otitis media.

As a context to these issues, there is discussion about the important role family and culture play in the health of Indigenous peoples.

— Chair: Dr Norman Swan, Presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio National.
— Dr Ernest Hunter, Psychiatrist, Cairns QLD.
— Dr Susan Vlack, Indigenous Health Division, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
— Dr Peter Morris, Menzies School of Health Research Casuarina, NT.

95 minutes.

Originally broadcast on Tuesday 9 April 2002.

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