Indigenous Australians are less likely to use health services than non-Indigenous people – even when needed. So health services need to change.
- Professor & Director, Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health (CAMDH), The University of Western Australia
Dissociation is the brain’s way of protecting itself from overwhelming stress or emotion, and it’s often linked to trauma.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are increasingly being removed from their families and placed into out-of-home care, raising concerns of another Stolen Generation.
The latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report – Headline Indicators for Children’s Health, Development and Wellbeing 2011 – shows Indigenous children, as well as those living in remote areas…
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