AMDIG Understanding Mortality Data 2008 Workshop - "indigenous Mortality"

Monday, 24th November, 2008 QUT Kelving Grove Room N518

• Professor Ian Ring Wollongong University - National Advisory Group on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Information and Data - Indigenous Mortality Data: Views of a NAGATSIHID member

• Professor Diego De Leo, Griffith University, Director, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, and WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention - Suicide in Indigenous Australians: Data from the Queensland Suicide Registry

• Fadwa Al-Yaman - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Welfare Unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Indigenous mortality revisited

• Sybille McKeown - Director, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics - ABS Indigenous Mortality Quality Study

• Mr Patrick Corr - Director, Demography, Australian Bureau of Statistics - Experimental Life Tables for Australia's Aboriginal and Toreres Strait Islander Population, 2001-2006

  Co-authors: Shahidullah and Abul Majumder

ABS releases on methods for developing Indigenous life tables and life expectancy estimates

• Dr Sarimawar Djaja, MD Mkes - Indonesian National Institute of Health Research and Development - Trial of Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD) to Improve the Quality of Recording and Reporting Hospital Mortality Data in Jakarta, Indonesia, Year 2007"

Co-authors: Lamria Pangaribuan MD, Tin Afifah, SKM, Chalapati Rao MD, MPH

• Pauline Gulliver - Injury Prevention Research Unit University of Otago - Developing indicators for measuring fatal and serious non-fatal injury for Maori.

Co-authors: Colin Cryer, Gabrielle Davie, John Langley

• Mr Darren Benham - Department of Health and Ageing OATSHI - Statistical basis for monitoring progress on Closing the Gap

• Len Smith - Australian National University - Closing the gap? Estimating the mortality and life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islandeer Australians.

Co-authors: Tony Barnes, Ching Choi

• Professor Helen Ware - Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Aboriginal and Multicultural Studies (CRAMS) - University of New England - Does Development for Indigenous Australians Decrease Mortality Or Increase Trauma? Statistical Issues for New South Wales

• Professor Richard Madden - National Centre for Classification in Health - Augmented Indigenous Identification: Issues for debate

Co-authors: Lee Taylor, Helen Moore

• Jessica Pearse - National Coronial Information System - The challenges of collecting and disseminating indigenous data from the coroners system

• Mr Dale Steinhardt and Adjunct Professor Vic Siskind - Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q) - An examination of the quality and consistency of Indigenous road trauma mortality and injury data through the North Queensland Rural and Remote Road Safety Study

Co-author: Mr Colin Edmonston

• Professor Theo Voss, University of Queensland, School of Population Health - Estimating Indigenous Life Expectancy

OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION

"Closing the Gaps In Indigenous Mortality Statistics" - Facilitator: Profssor Richard Madden, Chair AMDIG

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