Enhancing health and wellbeing outcomes for infants is at the forefront of global Indigenous social work practice.
Child maltreatment is a global health priority affecting up to half of all children worldwide, with profound and ongoing impacts on physical, social and emotional wellbeing.
Indigenous peoples are resilient peoples with deep traditional knowledge and scientific thought spanning millennia.
“Our children have a right to be cared for with love and raised to be strong and proud in their Culture”
Continuing to close the health gap will require innovation; long-term, systematic approaches that improve the quality and integrity of data; collaborations and partnerships that reflect an ecological approach to health, and recognition of the proper place and contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australian society.
“The Series identifies a set of ten proven nutrition-specific interventions, which if scaled up from present population coverage to cover 90% if the need, would eliminate about 900 000 deaths of children younger than 5 years in the 34 high nutrition-burden countries - where 90% of the world’s stunted children live.”
