Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and primary health care: patterns of service use, preferences, and access to services 2024

Amendments

9 December 2024 – Adjusted for consistency – The legend in Figure 5.13 uses the term ‘Other doctor’ but should use the term ‘Mainstream GP’. Other text and figures in the report use the term ‘mainstream GP’.

Acknowledgements

This report and associated materials were prepared by staff from 2 units of the First Nations Health and Welfare Group at the AIHW: Deanna Pagnini, Junta Ikeda, and Felicity Murdoch of the Primary Care Reporting Unit and Hayden Stevens and Martin Edvardsson of the Spatial Analysis Unit. Fadwa Al-Yaman provided helpful guidance and feedback throughout the project.

The Department of Health and Aged Care provided funding for this project. 

Thanks are also extended to the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Organisations (NACCHO), the AIHW’s Indigenous Statistical and Information Advisory Group (ISIAG), and members of the Department of Health and Aged Care’s First Nations Health Division who provided valuable comments on the work and earlier versions of this report.