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Indigenous inmates need better mental health services : The researchers, who included a member of the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland, found that 73% of Indigenous men and 86% of Indigenous women who gave interviews had a mental disorder . By comparison, 20% of Australians ...

Indigenous women handed mental health boost to assist pregnancy, motherhood  -  Indigenous women handed mental health boost to assist pregnancy, ... wellbeing of pregnant Aboriginal women is to be piloted in Western Australia .

Arnhem Land school develops Indigenous wellbeing curriculum to improve mental health - A remote homelands school in the Northern Territory is using Indigenous ideas about wellbeing in its curriculum to improve student mental health.

Urgent need for mental health services for Indigenous people in ... : “We recognise that mental health problems are more common and severe in Indigenous Australians and we have already spent around $2.5 million on research into depression and anxiety in this population group. In November, we will be ...

Indigenous disadvantage getting worse in mental health and incarceration -  Australia's efforts to combat Indigenous disadvantage are continuing to see declining outcomes in mental health, family violence, and incarceration, ...

Reaching Indigenous youth about mental health  - A group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths have come together to develop a new campaign to improve mental -health awareness among Indigenous  ...

Maitland indigenous mental health campaign  - The 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics census data shows 3.5 per cent of Maitland's population are of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin ...

The Health Wrap – a long way to go for mental health, Indigenous ...  - The past fortnight in health news has revealed the backlash that can occur when health reporting ignores evidence, and that workplaces and managers still don't  ...

Indigenous mental health report shows legal flaws  - Mr Clarke, who is deputy chairman of the First Peoples Disability Network, said successive inquiries had found Aboriginal Australians to be the most  ...

Wheatbelt focuses on Indigenous mental health -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have the highest rates of completed suicides in Australia , and these figures are rising, especially among ...

Indigenous mental health report shows legal flaws  - Mr Clarke, who is deputy chairman of the First Peoples Disability Network, said successive inquiries had found Aboriginal Australians to be the most  ...

Wheatbelt focuses on Indigenous mental health -  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have the highest rates of completed suicides in Australia , and these figures are rising, especially among ...

Call to target indigenous mental illness - RN Drive - ABC Radio ... : The suicide rate of indigenous Australians is twice the rate of other Australians , according to the first report card on the state of Australia's mental health care ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Eating disorders, youth and Indigenous mental illness priorities of $125m government mission - They are the first of five core areas deemed to be of critical importance to Australia's mental health according to the decade-long Million Minds ...

Report warns mental health services for Indigenous Australians inadequate and inappropriate  - The report, Effective strategies to strengthen the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, was released as part of ...

Mental health gap must be addressed  - At present, the rates of suicide and hospitalisation for mental health conditions among indigenous Australians are double those of other Australians . Further  ...

Study: Mental Health Issues High Among Aboriginal Inmates New research published in the Medical Journal of Australia recently, draws attention to the urgency to develop culturally relevant mental health services for indigenous Australians in custody according to prwire.com.au.

  Getting mobile mental health into Indigenous communities The suicide rate for Indigenous people is four times Australia's national rate. Many Indigenous people live in remote parts of Australia where therapists able to deliver suicide prevention treatments are rare or non-existent. And most treatments have ...

More needs to be done to provide indigenous people in NSW with adequate mental health care before they end up at crisis point in hospital, the ... View article...

This commission will help mentally ill or I'll quit Australia has a health system that is one of the best in the world. But it has at least two serious weaknesses - mental health and indigenous health (of which mental health problems are a major component). I say this even though Australia does a better ...