PHN Needs Assessment: Adelaide Primary Health Network: Aboriginial and Torres Strait Islander Health

Adelaide PHN commissioned the Public Health Discipline Group, College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University to undertake an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Needs Assessment for the Adelaide PHN region. Strength-based approaches and Indigenous Data Sovereignty were key considerations in the development of this Needs Assessment. Valuing and centring Indigenous knowledges throughout the Needs Assessment process – from approach, data sources accessed, data collected, analysis and dissemination – ensured appropriate contextualisation to shift Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes from a deficit discourse and data narrative, and to actively recognise the impacts of colonisation.