“The diseases for which relative disparities in fatal burden were most pronounced between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations were endocrine disorders, and kidney and urinary diseases-YLL rates for Indigenous Australians were 8 and 7 times the rates for non-Indigenous Australians for these two disease groups respectively. ‘Indigenous Australians living in areas with the most socioeconomic […]

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“For the first time, Indigenous children are able to access free flu vaccine in Australia This is important because Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are five times more likely to be hospitalised with flu and pneumonia than non-Indigenous children. Indigenous children are also 17 timesmore likely to die from flu or pneumonia than non-Indigenous […]