QAIHC and Queensland Health have launched a new holistic approach to cancer care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Achieving Health Equity in Cancer Care with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders: Joint Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council and Queensland Health Framework 2024 (the Framework) was released at the Joint First Nations Forum in August.
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The Queensland Government has launched a nation-leading plan to improve the mental health and wellbeing of all Queenslanders. It comes as new research commissioned by Health and Wellbeing Queensland, the state’s prevention agency, and conducted by Enhance Research reveals almost 9 in 10 young adults report some form of negative change in their personal health and wellbeing over the past year.
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The ACCHO sector is proud of the vital and necessary role it plays in the Queensland health sector. From the Torres Strait to the Gold Coast and as far west as Charleville and Mt Isa, the ACCHO sector provides comprehensive, holistic and culturally safe primary health care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in remote, regional and metropolitan areas.
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Community leaders from the Cape and Torres regions have welcomed the incorporation of the Cape and Torres Health Commissioning Ltd (CaTHC), a new health care commissioning entity for the area. CaTHC is an independent, community-controlled regional health care entity which will commission health services based on evidence and local community input.
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From the acclaimed author Julie Janson, Compassion continues the emotional and intense literary exploration of the complex and dangerous lives of Aboriginal women during the 1800s in colonial New South Wales, which Julie began in Benevolence as a counter
narrative to colonial history in Australian literature.
Sector Leader Magazine is published by the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC).
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