Indigenous News Update – Health

by Robbo on December 4, 2009

in Indigenous News

News

  • Infant mortality rates for Indigenous Australians are around twice the rates for all Australians http://bit.ly/5f0S5f
  • National disgrace: strongyloides still infects as many as 1/3 of the Aboriginal people living in remote communities http://bit.ly/8H4acP
  • During 2009 Swine Flu epidemic in Australia indigenous Australians were 16% of all hospitalisations Only 2.5% of popn http://bit.ly/8gr6gh
  • Are City-based journos and policy: a threat to remote Indigenous health? via @Croakey blog. – I think they are. http://bit.ly/5Bdc6h
  • 1200 wild dogs were removed from a Northern Territory town camp following the deaths of two men who were eaten by dogs http://bit.ly/51hHXU

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.

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