Making Tracks Together seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of First Nations people by eliminating health inequities and working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, health services, communities and consumers, including Traditional Owners to design, deliver, monitor and review healthcare services.
Firmly embedded in the legal framework guiding the public health system in Queensland is a commitment to improve First Nations health and wellbeing outcomes by:
- actively eliminating racial discrimination and institutional racism within the service
- increasing access to healthcare services
- influencing the social, cultural and economic determinants of health
- delivering sustainable, culturally safe and responsive healthcare services
- working with First Nations peoples, communities and organisations to design, deliver, monitor, and review health services.
Health equity in Queensland reflects the formal Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap between the Commonwealth Government, state and territory governments and the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peak Organisations.
This nation-first move in amended public health system legislation will strengthen the Queensland Government commitment to closing the gap in First Nations health and wellbeing outcomes by requiring Hospital and Health Services (HSSs) to work in partnership with the community-controlled health organisations and other stakeholders prescribed by regulation to co-design a regional health equity strategy.
Health Equity Strategies will be reviewed every three years and there will be three tranches of regional strategies over the next ten years.
For more information on Making Tracks Together visit www.health.qld.gov.au/public-health/groups/atsihealth/health-equity