title: Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the 'gap' in 'Closing the Gap'?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the extent to which nutrition has been prioritised in national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Australian Government websites were searched for Aboriginal-specific health policies and strategies developed between 2000 and 2012. Thirteen documents describing nine policies were analysed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Increased and more comprehensive inclusion of nutrition in Aboriginal health policy was identified during the first half of this period. In the second half, however, nutrition strategies were fragmented, and a much greater emphasis was placed on smoking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With the exception of food security in remote communities, nutrition seems to have disappeared from the national Aboriginal health policy agenda. This is a concern, given the burden of nutrition-related disease in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University, Victoria; Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Victoria.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Browne
authors.forename: Rick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gleeson
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009752:Nutritional Status
keywords: Aboriginal health; Indigenous health; nutrition; policy