Effectiveness of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services

The Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research has compiled an evidence brief:  The relative effectiveness of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services compared with mainstream health service.  ACCHSs have been funded by the Australian Government to provide primary health care services to Aboriginal people.  The authors of this brief found a lack of evidence on the effectiveness of these health services.  "This means that it is impossible to make categorical statements, one way or the other, about the effectiveness of ACCHS.  That said, a range of studies have been conducted which, while mostly small-scale, indicate that the services provided by ACCHS are valued by their Aboriginal clients."