Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people enjoy high levels of social and emotional wellbeing
Target 14: Significant and sustained reduction in suicide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people towards zero.
Indicators:
Drivers:
- Non-fatal hospitalisations for intentional self-harm
- Intentional self-harm mortality rate (suicide)
- Hospitalisations for mental health-related disorders
Contextual information:
- Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people reporting experiencing psychological distress
- Proportion of people reported experiencing one of more barriers accessing health services
- Mental health-related disorders mortality rates
- Proportion who report having experienced racism in the previous 12 months
Disaggregation:
- States/territories
- Remoteness areas
- Socio-economic status of the locality
- Gender
- Age group
Data Development:
Explore options to measure and report:
- mental health related Medicare services by GPs, Psychologists and Psychiatrists
- specialised mental health care services
- barriers to accessing mental health services
- improve the quality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identification in deaths data, to support reporting of mental health-related mortality data including self-harm mortality data for all states and territories, and at regional/community levels
- main factors leading to suicide by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- alternative measure of psychological distress (preferably non-survey based)
- mental and behavioural mortality data including self-harm mortality data for all states and territories, and at regional/community levels
- prevalence of racist attitudes against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people held by the Australian community
- rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who feel a strong connection to culture and community
- explore measures of suicide ideation, particularly among youth