TableĀ 1

Overview of the indigenous chronic disease package

Priority area: tackling chronic disease risk factorsPriority area: improving chronic disease managementPriority area: workforce expansion and support
Measures/strategies to:
  • Reduce smoking by improving access to smoking cessation services through a new tobacco workforce and tobacco campaigns

  • Encourage healthy lifestyles through a new healthy lifestyle workforce and improved access to healthy lifestyle programmes

  • Increase health promotion activities

Measures/strategies to:
  • Provide access to free or subsidised medications

  • Increase health assessments and follow-up from health assessments

  • Improve coordination of care through patient registration at health services and dedicated positions

  • Delivery of training in self-management of chronic disease

  • Increase access to specialist and multidisciplinary team care

Measures/strategies to:
  • Increase workforce support, education and training

  • Expand the outreach and service capacity of Indigenous Health Services through employment of Outreach Workers

  • Improve access to mainstream primary care through employment of Indigenous Health Project Officers and Outreach Workers

  • Source: Department of Health, 2010.