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Good quality data describing the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants, children and young people in Victoria are needed to accurately determine the number of births to Aboriginal mothers and fathers each year, to analyse birth outcomes, and to determine the rate, cause and preventability of deaths occurring among Aboriginal infants, children and young people.

This five-year Australian Research Council-funded is currently underway at the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, the University of Melbourne in collaboration with the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO). The study will address the critical issue of a lack of good quality data using an innovative method and research process.

News!

8 December 2009 - Inaugural meeting of the Data Linkage Working Group

3 December 2009 - Preliminary workshop re the development of a Preventability Index for infants, children and young people

4 November 2009 - Inaugural meeting of the Communications Working Group

17 August 2009 - Launch: An Overview of Statutory and Administrative Datasets: Describing the Health of Victoria's Aboriginal Infants, Children and Young People