Indigenous Health Contents: QUESTION 1................... ......................................................Page 3 ANSWER ..............................................................................Page 3 Graph of Life Expectancy ..........................................................Page 4 Major Cause Of Sickness And Death ............................................Page 5 ·         Circulatory Diseases .............................................Page 5 ·         External Causes ...................................................Page 5 ·         Cancer ...............................................................Page 6 ·         Multiple causes of death ..........................................Page 6 QUESTION: 1.         What Inequities exist in the health status of Indigenous People when compared to the non -Indigenous population? ANSWER: The life expectancy is the number of years a person can expect to live. Experimental methods were used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics …showed first 75 words of 806 total…

…showed last 75 words of 806 total…of these deaths, ischaemic heart disease alone was reported on the death certificate as the cause of death. One or more associated causes were reported for the remainder. The most commonly associated cause of death reported with ischaemic heart disease was other forms of heart disease. Diabetes, which has been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (stroke), was recorded as a cause in one in five Indigenous deaths resulting from ischaemic heart disease.