There are serious and widespread environmental health problems facing Aboriginal people in rural Western Australia. These include:
- inadequate and poorly maintained housing
- lack of suitable sewage facilities
- inadequate and poor quality water supplies
- lack of other basic facilities such as power, drainage, communications and roads.
A range of guidance materials are available to assist environmental health practitioners with their role:
- Aboriginal environmental health
- Aboriginal environmental health database manual (PDF 993KB)
- Environmental Needs Health Survey (EHNS) 2008 Report (PDF 4.5MB)
- Future Directions for Indigenous Environmental Health in Western Australia (Public Health Advocacy Institute of WA) (PDF 3.7MB)
- How to clean your home using environmentally friendly products (PDF 665KB)
- Resource manual for Environmental Health Practitioners working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities (PDF 6.04KB)
- Environmental health referrals
- WA Health – Information for Environmental Health practitioners
- Mosquitoes and pests
- WAPHA environmental webinars
- WA Health Environmental Health Directorate Strategic Plan
