Urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equity Dashboard

Fadwa M. Al-Yaman, Australian Institute of Heath and Welfare

Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS) aims to improve Indigenous peoples and communities’ ability to improve access to, control of, and utilise this data for their own futures. Indigenous Australians living in capital cities are a population that little policy and program attention is given to, despite cities comprising the largest proportion of Indigenous Australians. This collaborative project conducted between the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the Research Alliance for Urban Community Controlled Health Services (RAUCCHS) and the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland (UQ Poche) aimed to collate all available demographic and health and wellbeing data capital cities and release these data on the Urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equity Dashboard publicly. The AIHW has led, in partnership, the development of a dashboard visualising data on health determinants and health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians. Visualisations on the dashboard include regional profiles (population size and distribution, age, sex and socioeconomic status indicators like housing, education and employment), perinatal, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, mortality, hospitalisations and emergency department data. Governance of this project comprises representatives of RAUCCHS, the AIHW and UQ Poche. The AIHW has analysed and assessed the data quality of contributing data sources in partnership, and the dashboard is scheduled for a public release in the 2nd half of 2025.

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  Presented in Session 132. Urban Indigenous Population and Health