Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’?
Abstract Objective: To examine the extent to which nutrition has been prioritised in national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy. Method: Australian Government websites were searched for Aboriginal‐specific health policies and strategies developed between 2000 and 2012. Thirteen doc...
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| description | Abstract Objective: To examine the extent to which nutrition has been prioritised in national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy. Method: Australian Government websites were searched for Aboriginal‐specific health policies and strategies developed between 2000 and 2012. Thirteen documents describing nine policies were analysed. Results: Increased and more comprehensive inclusion of nutrition in Aboriginal health policy was identified during the first half of this period. In the second half, however, nutrition strategies were fragmented, and a much greater emphasis was placed on smoking. Conclusion and Implication: With the exception of food security in remote communities, nutrition seems to have disappeared from the national Aboriginal health policy agenda. This is a concern, given the burden of nutrition‐related disease in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c8b56c473d744f9b8a567ccb225fb9ff2023-08-02T04:05:04ZengElsevierAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health1326-02001753-64052014-08-0138436236910.1111/1753-6405.12223Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’?Jennifer Browne0Rick Hayes1Deborah Gleeson2School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University, VictoriaSchool of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University, VictoriaSchool of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University, VictoriaAbstract Objective: To examine the extent to which nutrition has been prioritised in national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy. Method: Australian Government websites were searched for Aboriginal‐specific health policies and strategies developed between 2000 and 2012. Thirteen documents describing nine policies were analysed. Results: Increased and more comprehensive inclusion of nutrition in Aboriginal health policy was identified during the first half of this period. In the second half, however, nutrition strategies were fragmented, and a much greater emphasis was placed on smoking. Conclusion and Implication: With the exception of food security in remote communities, nutrition seems to have disappeared from the national Aboriginal health policy agenda. This is a concern, given the burden of nutrition‐related disease in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12223Indigenous healthAboriginal healthnutritionpolicy |
| spellingShingle | Jennifer Browne Rick Hayes Deborah Gleeson Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Indigenous health Aboriginal health nutrition policy |
| title | Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’? |
| title_full | Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’? |
| title_fullStr | Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’? |
| title_short | Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’? |
| title_sort | aboriginal health policy is nutrition the gap in closing the gap |
| topic | Indigenous health Aboriginal health nutrition policy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12223 |
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