Richard Madden

TL;DR: Taking into account the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this study recommends that national governments develop targeted policy responses to Indigenous health, improving access to health services, and Indigenous data within national surveillance systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review was conducted identifying how the colonial impact on social justice is described in the relationships with the health of Indigenous Australians, and a comprehensive search strategy was developed, including four broad search terms of ‘Indigenous people’ and ‘health status’, and applied within five databases.

TL;DR: The concept of the Family of International Classifications has been created to have a common framework and language to report, compile, use, and compare health information at the national and international level.

TL;DR: In this paper, an outline of the way in which the official Australian suicide data is captured and coded and highlights issues relating to the classification used, coronial processes, documentation requirements and data sources which impact on the final reported data, especially deaths associated with coronial investigations.

TL;DR: An attempt is made to highlight issues relating to suicide coding that have an impact on the final reported mortality data by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.