Health Program Evaluation: Northern Territory Emergency Response

Introduction: This assessment is designed to investigate whether specific measures are effective and comprehensive and to achieve improved sustainable results in Australian indigenous peoples' safety, health, education and employment Based on the results of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) program. (1) Evaluation of NTER is conducted by expert panels in various fields. This work focuses on interventions such as CHCI (Child Health Check Initiative), aimed at improving the general health of children in the Northern Territory.

In addition to a small example of the government's plan, the emergency response (NTER) of the Northern Territory government has a major influence on the public health of the community's indigenous people and should not be mentioned. Established by Howard government in 2007, NTER improves the prospects of Australian indigenous people living in Northern Territory, local safety and protection of children (Family, Housing, Regional Services, Earth circumstances website, 2009). As part of the plan, the government implemented 11 measures to achieve the goal, added another measure including only NT, and discontinued the Community Development Employment Program (Altman, 2007). Intervention has been done to develop indigenous communities, but many individuals and organizations support or criticize this approach strongly.

In 2007, the Northern Territory's indigenous community published a report on sexual abuse and violence, which caused a major controversy. The response to the government's report was to start the "Northern Territory National Emergency Response" later in the year. Many measures of the plan, such as elimination of the rights of indigenous communities to manage access to the land, and compulsory acquisition of specific communities caused great dissatisfaction among indigenous peoples.

On 21 June 2007, the Australian Government announced "Protection of State Emergency Response Measures for Northern Territory Children" from sexual abuse and domestic violence. This is called "NT intervention" or "emergency response". The medium of action was the announcement of "Northern Territory Report on the Protection of Children from Sexual Abuse" called Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle: "Children are sacred." Part of the "Taiwan intervention" policy is to impose extensive alcohol regulation on the land of the Northern Territory. Enrollment rates are increased by providing income and family benefits for attending school for all those living in the land of Aborigines and the rate of paying to parents to provide meals for children