Aboriginal Health Workers and Chronic Disease Management
Duration: 52 minutes
Program ID: 404 | Purchase Price: $105.00 (DVD)
Over three million Australians, or nearly one in seven, suffer from chronic disease. The burden of chronic disease for Indigenous people is much greater than the rest of the population. Diabetes-related death and illness is ten times more for Indigenous people than those in the non-Indigenous population. Overall mortality rates reveal Indigenous people are dying up to twenty years younger than non-Indigenous people in Australia.
Program Presenters
- Chair: Dr Norman Swan - Presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio National
- Mr Maria Calyun - Aboriginal Health Worker and Team Leader, Early Intervention program
- Dr Christine Connors - Medical Practitioner, Royal Darwin Hospital, NT.
- Ms Fiona Coulthard - Project worker, Sharing Health Care Chronic Disease Initiative
Learning Outcomes
- Improve GPs? awareness of the burden of chronic disease among Indigenous people.
- Provide information on the new Medicare item (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adult health check) and its role re the above.
- Enhance the capacity of Aboriginal Health Workers and other health professionals to understand the importance and effectiveness of: ? Early detection of chronic disease, and; ? Risk factor management
- Discuss how primary health care activities can contribute to chronic disease prevention and management.
- Raise awareness of the importance of a systematic approach to primary health care activity in relation to chronic disease, covering: ? The role of finger prick testing, and; ? Chronic disease self management programs
Broadcast Dates
This program was first broadcast on the Foundation's satellite network on Thursday 24 June 2004.
Funding Bodies
Accreditation
This program is accredited for CPD/CPE by RACGP, ACRRM, RCNA and the PSA
