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Aboriginal health restored to its proper priority : Comments
By Jacqueline Phillips, published 17/9/2010The initial omission of the Indigenous health portfolio could have just been a clumsy oversight
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This article is correct in its assertion that health services are "not enough". The role that overcrowded housing, poor employment and training opportunites and the flow on effect each of these has to poor school attendance needs far more attention in my view than increased health expenditure. As Prof Fran Baum said to a conference in Darwin last year "what good does it do to treat people's illnesses then give them no choice (but) to go back to or no control over the conditions that made them sick?"