The Australian Health Survey (AHS) is the most comprehensive health survey ever conducted in Australia and included both a component from the general population as well as a component specifically relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. This component of the survey collected information in both non-remote and remote areas and included discrete communities.

Sally Rayner, Assistant Director of Health Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, will be presenting results from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander component of the collection. Sally will briefly cover early results released on smoking and obesity, however, she will be concentrating on the most recent biomedical results released on cholesterol, diabetes and kidney disease.

In addition to a summary of some of the results, information will also be given on how this data can best be accessed, as well as an overview of future releases. There will be an opportunity at the end of the seminar to ask questions of Sally, along with Su Maharaj, Director of the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics of the ABS.

Date: Thursday, 20 November 2014
Time: 11am – noon
Please arrive 5 minutes early for registration
Venue: Bonython Jubilee Building Lecture Theatre (BJ1-13)
UniSA City East Campus, Frome Rd, Adelaide
Please register via http://aatsihs-sa.eventbrite.com.au