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QUESTION 10: Provide an overview of the topic that you covered for your…

- - - - WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
- - - - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have endured suffering from poor health because they lacked access to adequate health care.
        • The inequalities between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians is substantial, especially when it comes to chronic and communicable diseases, infant health, mental health, and life expectation.
        
        In 2005, the Social Justice Report highlighted a number of disturbing trends among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that reveal a health crisis.
        
        high rates of chronic diseases such as renal failure,
        
        cardio-vascular diseases and diabetes;
        
        high rates of sexually transmitted infections and relatively high rates of HIV/AIDS prevalence;
        
        The CTG campaign came about as a result of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma’s efforts to raise awareness of the issue in his Social Justice Report in 2005. SJR 2005/TOM CALMA
  - - - The target we’ve selected for analysis is Closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation (by 2031).
        
        As of 2017, the Dept of the PM and cabinet reports that that we are not on track to close the gap in life expectancy by 2031.
        
        The campaign has suffered from a lack of improvement in a number of health areas. For instance, indigenous mortality rates from cancer (which is the second leading cause of death) are rising and the gap is widening.
        
        SETBACKS
        
        MORTALITY RATES FROM CANCER IS RISING
        
        SUICIDE RATE CONTINUES TO RISE, SECOND HIGHEST IN THE WORLD, BEHIND GREENLAND
        
        SUCCESSES
        
        15% decrease in mortality rates since 1998
        
        Improvements in chronic diseases
        
        improved access to health care
        
        Reductions in smoking