Bourke AMS targets young men

Management of Bourke Aboriginal Health Service CEO Barbara Flick, Chariman Stephen Howarth, Deputy Chair Robert Knight and Executive Assistant Julie Knight Photo: TWH

Young men are in the sights of the Bourke Aboriginal Medical Service, keen to turn around the worrying health statistics of premature death from preventable disease.

Bourke AMS CEO Barbara Flick is driving the program to encourage Bourke’s teenage boys to get regular health checks.

“We need to understand the health profile of the community so we’ve embarked on this campaign to do as many health checks as we can. Read more in the printed edition of the Western Herald.