Improving the early life outcomes of Indigenous children

This paper outlines the wide gaps in early life outcomes for Indigenous people compared with non-Indigenous people, such as higher rates of poor health conditions, hospital admissions and poor nutrition among Indigenous children. It then discusses how localised early childhood development works to overcome these disadvantages through a range of interventions that are tailored to address the local determinants of early childhood development. 

Improving the early life outcomes of Indigenous children: implementing early childhood development at the local level.

Issues paper no. 6 produced for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse. AIHW. Sarah Wise, December 2013