Discuss strategies that hold the potential to improve the burden of illness and life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

This course as a whole has helped me to gain a greater understanding of not only the poor health outcomes seen by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but also the reasons behind these. The disparity in outcomes between our non-Indigenous and Indigenous populations is clearly concerning, and therefore more effort in bridging this gap is needed (Kendall & Barnett, 2015). This is not a simple process, as to be done effectively, it requires action from many levels; not only the individual, but also at the level of organisations, and even higher up, in the community as a whole (Wilson, Kelly, Magarey, Jones, & Mackean, 2016).