Despite government pledges to tackle their health problems, aboriginal people can still expect to die up to 11.5 years earlier than other Australians, a report has said. It added that the indigenous people are twice as likely to die as infants.
The Australian Medical Association said its latest indigenous health assessment showed "tragic" prospects for the country's original inhabitants, with disproportionate levels of disease and mortality, particularly among men.
They were twice as likely to die in the first year of their lives as other males, and 1.4 times more likely than Aboriginal girls.
Aboriginal males had much higher rates of hospitalisation at 876 in every 1,000, compared with 358 in 1,000 for men more broadly, and were also more than twice as likely to be hosptialised for mental health and behavioural disorders as other Australian males.
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"Our efforts as a nation to close the gap on indigenous life expectancy will not succeed unless we turn around the high rates of poor health and early death among indigenous boys, adolescents and men," said AMA president Andrew Pesce.
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Rudd has committed to halving the gaps in infant mortality, overall life expectancy, literacy and numeracy achievement and school completion rates within 10 years for Aboriginal people, who make up 2.5 percent of Australia's 22 million population.
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