25 June 2024 | NACCHO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health News [Video]

• New report calls for urgent action on diabetes prevention
• $16 million to support healthcare in rural and remote Australia
• Disparities persist in childhood cancer rates
• Videos aim to help youth go vape-free
• Allied health key to critical health reform
• Treaty inquiry slams ‘illusion of concern’ on housing
• Sector Jobs

The NACCHO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health News is a platform we use to showcase the important work being done in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, focusing on the work of NACCHO, NACCHO members and NACCHO affiliates.

We also share a curated selection of news stories that are of likely interest to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector, broadly.

Diabetes Australia’s 2024 State of the Nation report, launched at New South Wales Parliament, reveals a worsening diabetes crisis, with alarming increases in type 2 diabetes diagnoses among younger Australians.

Over the past decade, there has been a 44% rise in diagnoses among 21 to 39-year-olds and a 17% increase among those under 20. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth …