There have been many innovative programs that have worked in Indigenous Health. The hard part it ensuring you can keep obtaining funding to run them. Much of the funding is one off grants and won’t necessarily continue even if the health program has shown it can make a difference.
The online booklet “10 out of 10 Deadly Health Stories – Nutrition and physical activity” has been produced by the Aboriginal Health and Medical research Council of NSW to hi-light 10 successful programs produced by Aboriginal Community Controlled Health services in NSW in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.
These usually form part of the Chronic Disease programs endeavouring to promote healthy lifestyles, reducing the incidence of and improving the health outcomes of those with chronic disease.
Alternatively it can be downloaded from here
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