Social and Indigenous Group

The Social and Indigenous Group is responsible for producing statistics, analysis and reporting on health and welfare issues relating to children, youth and families, and to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Group is also responsible for reporting on Indigenous specific primary health care services and manages the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Family Studies. The Group leads the production of the biennial report on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and welfare and the online Indigenous observatory. The Group also manages a range of data activities that seek to improve Indigenous identification in key health data sets in order to better monitor the COAG Indigenous 'Closing the Gap' targets.

Head: Fadwa Al-Yaman

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Further Information

Website: www.aihw.gov.au/subjects/  

Telephone: 02 6244 1146

Facsimile: 02 6244 1299

Post:
Social and Indigenous Group
AIHW
GPO Box 570
CANBERRA ACT 2601