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Strategic areas for actionFunctional and resilient families andcommunitiesStrategic change indicators• Children on care and protection orders• Repeat offending• Access to primary health care• Mental health• Proportion of Indigenous people with access totheir traditional lands• Participation in organised sport, arts orcommunity group activities• Engagement with service deliveryEffective environmental healthsystems• Rates of diseases associated with poorenvironmental health (including water and foodborne diseases, trachoma, tuberculosis andrheumatic heart disease)• Access to clean water and functional sewerage• Overcrowding in housingEconomic participation anddevelopment• Employment (full-time/part-time) by sector(public/private), industry and occupation• Self employment and Indigenous business• Indigenous owned or controlled land• Governance capacity and skills• Case studies in governance arrangementsEarly child development and growth (prenatal to age 3)Providing a child with a good start can have a profound effect on the rest of theirlife. Health, growth and development in the first three years of life play crucial rolesin later outcomes. Stress and neglect in these early years can have significant effectson later health and educational outcomes. Policy action in these early years can leadto significant benefits in the longer term.Injury and preventable diseasesA wide range of social, cultural, physical and economic factors influence the healthof children. The actions of communities and governments can promote the health of26 OVERCOMINGINDIGENOUSDISADVANTAGE 2007