[Anthropgrad] FW: [Caepr.seminars] Seminar Reminder Wednesday 6 August 2008

[Liz Walters]

 Seminar Reminder
                                                              
Wednesday August 06 2008
12.30 - 2.00pm

Closing the gap? Monitoring trends in Indigenous Australians' life
expectancy

Len Smith (Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, ANU) 


Abstract: The Prime Minister's commitment to narrow the 17-year gap
between the life expectancy of Indigenous Australians and that of the
total population, and to report annually on progress, echoes similar
promises made over the 40 years since the referendum gave the Federal
Government a national responsibility for Indigenous health. The paper
reviews the policy background to this commitment, and examines estimates
of Indigenous life expectancy over the period, in order to establish the
validity of the estimates, and the likelihood of reduction given past
trends. The current situation represents a dual system failure: a
failure of the national health system to address Indigenous
disadvantage, and a failure of the national statistical system to
produce the data needed to guide policy and monitor change. 


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