Indigenous people in the remotest parts of Australia have better health outcomes than those in less remote, or outer regional, areas.
A study that recently was published in MJA looked at deaths from chronic disease across the Northern Territory found 'strikingly higher' mortality rates among Aborigines in less remote locations.
Using Australia's general population as a baseline, the death rate among indigenous people in outer regional areas like suburban Darwin was about three times higher.
Check out the full text article at the Medical Journal of Australia website
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/190_06_160309/contents_160309.html
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