Aboriginal community-controlled healthcare improving life expectance in NT | ABC NEWS

Aboriginal health groups say more serious efforts are needed to improve on hard-won gains in closing the Indigenous life expectancy gap.

Despite some improvements, the Northern Territory still has the country's highest rate of preventable deaths for First Nations people.

And doctors say the health system is only part of the solution. Jane Bardon filed this report for ABC News Northern Territory.

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