Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee

AHAC Plan (Final)

AHAC Community Consultations

An Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee (AHAC) meeting held on the 29th September 2005, a recommendation was put forward to further develop the AHAC through community consultations.

The AHAC consultations were held on the following dates with the following results:

Some eleven years ago now, in 1994, the South Australian Health Commission began to address the need for better representation of Aboriginal people’s views on seven Regional Health Boards in South Australia. This followed a major restructure of the administration of health services in the State, with more decision making authority given to seven designated Regional Health Boards, each of which had (and continue to have) an Aboriginal representative among its members.



Since 1994 there have been significant developments here in South Australia that has contributed to an overall raised consciousness about the poor health status of Aboriginal people’s health.