Adult Health Check Events – comprehensive early detection for disease in Aboriginal people
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Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation in partnership with Greater Western Area Health Service
This project won the 2007 NSW Health Awards, Making Prevention Everybody's Business category.
Contact: Helen McKibbin
Abstract
The Adult Health Check (AHC) has evolved from Far North Queensland in the late 1990s to far western NSW as a way of detecting early new cases of disease, particularly in Aboriginal people.
Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation have run AHC events in Menindee (February 2005), Ivanhoe (August 2005), Wilcannia (March 2006), Balranald (May 2006), Dareton (July 2006) and Broken Hill (September – December 2006).
711 people have participated in one of the checks up to December 2006; 359 (50%) were Aboriginal and 501 (70%) were aged 15 – 54 years. 104 (15%) of those checked had raised sugar, 379 (53%) had raised cholesterol, 126 (18%) had high blood pressure and 96 (14%) had an abnormal urine test (ACR) for kidney health.
The number of chronic disease careplans being managed by Remote Cluster health services has significantly increased by 14% since September 2006 – from 1264 to 1440.
The full entry document can be downloaded in the formats listed below:
Adult Health Check Events – comprehensive early detection for disease in Aboriginal people (89KB)
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