4724.0.55.001 - Diabetes in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, 2004-05  
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INTRODUCTION

In 2004–05 the Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted two nation-wide health surveys: the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey and the National Health Survey. These surveys were designed to enable comparisons between the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous people.