Reference: 2009-013 - Management of coronary heart disease in the Indigenous population in Western Australia: from information to action

Researchers: A/Prof Sandra Thompson Kate Taylor (Curtin University); Emeritus Prof Michael Hobbs, Dr Frank Sanfilippo, Prof Peter Thompson, Dr Tom Briffa, Dr Judy Katzenellenbogen, Kaylene Piercy (The University of WA)

Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council Grant

Project objectives: To describe the extent of and likely reasons for inequities in medical care of cardiovascular disease in Indigenous Western Australians compared with care received by the non-Indigenous population, using acute coronary heart disease as a model.

Progress: Completed in 2010