Poor quality housing is one of several factors contributing to a looming health crisis in the state’s far west.
Whether you’re out for dinner or at children’s weekend sport, you can bet at some point the conversation will turn to housing and how costly it is.
At a minimum, such levels present risks for children’s cognition and motor function. As levels increase, the body’s ability to use vitamin D and make red blood cells can decrease. In extreme cases, high lead levels can cause severe anaemia, kidney damage and seizures.For Aboriginal children, the average blood lead reading was 7.9 micrograms per decilitre, a reading well above the 5 microgram target set by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
An Australian Institute of Health and Welfare analysis of ABS health survey data from the years before the pandemic estimated only 29 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults aged 18 to 64 were in “good health”, compared to 51 per cent of non-Indigenous Australians.Questions have been raised about the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW, the peak body overseeing local organisations such as Maari Ma.
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