The AIHW has just released a report called Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health labour force statistics and data quality assessment. It provides comprehensive data on the Indigenous health labour force, drawn from censuses, surveys and administrative data sources. The report presents information on Indigenous medical practitioners, nurses, Aboriginal health workers and those studying health. The report also assesses the quality of Indigenous labour force data.
In most cases, the increase in the number of health professionals over time was larger than the indigenous population increase over the same period, but there were problems with the data in terms of undercounting and a low response rate.
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