Table 1.

Overview of the indigenous chronic disease package

Priority area: tackling chronic disease risk factors	Priority area: improving chronic disease management	Priority area: workforce expansion and support
Measures/strategies to: Reduce smoking by improving access to smoking cessation services through a new tobacco workforce and tobacco campaigns Encourage healthy lifestyles through a new healthy lifestyle workforce and improved access to healthy lifestyle programmes Increase health promotion activities	Measures/strategies to: Provide access to free or subsidised medications Increase health assessments and follow-up from health assessments Improve coordination of care through patient registration at health services and dedicated positions Delivery of training in self-management of chronic disease Increase access to specialist and multidisciplinary team care	Measures/strategies to: Increase workforce support, education and training Expand the outreach and service capacity of Indigenous Health Services through employment of Outreach Workers Improve access to mainstream primary care through employment of Indigenous Health Project Officers and Outreach Workers

Source: Department of Health, 2010.