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The social determinants of health include if a person:

A greater focus on the lessons learned from strengths based indicators and practices, collaboration and culturally respectful policy and program development will make a strong and long lasting contribution to positive health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the years to come.

Proportion (%) of Indigenous population living in a state/territory

In 2015, injury was a common cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people . The most common causes of injury-related death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were suicide and traffic accidents. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were twice as likely as non-Indigenous people to die from suicide and almost three times as likely to die from traffic accidents. The largest gap in death rates was related to assault, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were around eight times more likely to die from assault than non-Indigenous people.

Proportion (%) of a state/territory population that is Indigenous

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had an average of 14% of their daily energy from free sugars on the day prior to the survey, which is higher than the recommended 10% . Males had more total sugars than females (121 g compared with 101 g) especially in the 14-18 years age group (147 g compared with 102 g) .

Source: Derived from ABS, 2014 , ABS, 2016

Milk products and other dairy foods were eaten by 83% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, 69% reported consuming milk and 26% reported consuming cheese . Similar proportions of males and females consumed dairy foods (84% and 82% respectively).

gynaecological cancer (females) (2.0 times higher)

More than one-half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people reported eating the recommended serves of fruit every day (54%) but only 8% ate the recommended serves of vegetables every day . For those over the age of 15 years, women were more likely than men to have eaten the recommended amount of fruit (45% and 40% respectively) and vegetables (7% and 3% respectively) each day.

Recent information about communicable diseases includes:

On the day before the survey, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had 41% of their total daily energy from discretionary foods (foods and drinks that are not necessary to provide the nutrients the body needs, such as sweets, cakes, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks) . Similar proportions of females and males consumed discretionary foods except for alcoholic beverages which twice as many males as females reported consuming (15% and 7.7% respectively) .

Smoking tobacco is a major cause of:

The 2012-13 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and physical activity survey (NATSINPAS) collected information about many different foods and nutrients.

Drinking too much alcohol is associated with:

Poor nutrition can contribute to overweight and obesity, malnutrition, CVD, type 2 diabetes, and tooth decay . The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines recommend that adults eat fruit and plenty of vegetables every day, with a wide variety of types and colours . They also recommend including reduced fat varieties of milk, yoghurts and cheeses, and to limit foods and drinks that have added sugar and salt and those that have little or no nutritional content ('discretionary' foods).