Australia’s ten-year national plan to reduce suicide. It notes that people who come to Australia as humanitarian entrants have nearly twice the suicide rate of other permanent migrants, and includes actions on safe workplaces and belonging for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Place: National
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National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement
The agreement between the Commonwealth and the states and territories on how mental health and suicide prevention will be funded and run. It names culturally and linguistically diverse communities and refugees as priority groups for better outcomes.
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Reporting on the health of culturally and linguistically diverse populations in Australia: An exploratory paper
This paper tests how linked government data (country of birth, language, ancestry and more) can be used to report on the health of CALD groups. It shows that health differences become clearer when data are broken down into detailed groups rather than one ‘CALD’ category.
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Social determinants of health among culturally and linguistically diverse people in Australia
An analysis of how things like income, education and housing relate to long-term health conditions in CALD groups, using Census data. For mental health conditions, adjusting for these social factors changed the picture only a little.
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Chronic health conditions among culturally and linguistically diverse Australians, 2021
Uses 2021 Census data to compare long-term health conditions, including mental health conditions, by country of birth and language. Overseas-born groups reported similar or lower rates of mental health conditions than the Australian-born.
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Suicide & self-harm monitoring: Migrants and refugees
National data on suicide among people who came to Australia as humanitarian entrants and other permanent migrants. Rates were lower than for the whole population but rose with time spent in Australia, and humanitarian entrants had higher rates than other permanent migrants.
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Dementia in Australia: Dementia among people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
A section of AIHW’s national dementia report focused on people from CALD backgrounds. It shows that about half of CALD people with dementia living in the community did not speak English well or at all, which matters for assessment and care.
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National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing, 2020–2022
Australia’s main survey of how common mental disorders are; about one in five people (21.5%) had a mental disorder in the past year. The headline release does not break results down by country of birth or language, but researchers can apply for the detailed microdata.
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Mental Health: Productivity Commission Inquiry Report
A national inquiry into how Australia’s mental health system works and what it costs. It calls for services, online tools and the workforce to better meet the cultural and language needs of people from diverse backgrounds, including support for bilingual and bicultural peer workers.