Seed Foundation Australia

Seed Foundation Australia works with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth from rural and remote communities providing pathways into higher education and employment.

FIRST PEOPLES HEALTH PROGRAM WILL... 

• Offer opportunities for students to engage with a university, training and employment pathway.

• Increase the Indigenous health workforce. 

• Provide students with health literacy that can be taken back to their home communities.

HEALTH

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities experience:

• Fewer opportunities to participate in the health workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders constitute 2.5% of Australiaís population, however only 1.8% of Australiaís health workforce is made up of Indigenous workers. This 1.8% includes cleaners, food preparation staff, maintenance workers, as well as trained health professionals. 
   
• Mortality rates almost twice as high as that of the rest of Australia, and five times as high for those aged between 35-44.
   
• Poorer health, suffer from more chronic diseases, and subsequently have a shorter life expectancy than non-Indigenous populations in Australia.