When anaesthetising an Aboriginal patient, Aboriginal health workers should consider make-up factors, like the presence of special anatomical features, variations from a white person in physiological terms, personal habits and the patient's psychological condition.

The advantages of breast feeding and maintaining good health of lactating mothers are highlighted and the problems faced by babies who are deprived of breast-feeding are mentioned. Health workers must impart knowledge about bottle-feeding such as the measurement and preparation of milk mixture, hygiene and sterility to be maintained in case of mothers and guardians who need to bottle feed their babies, and encourage breast-feeding wherever possible.

Public Health Nutritionists from Department of Health and Community Services Nhulunbuy took initiative to educate the community about healthy eating. The initiative provides opportunities for Yolngu youth to learn about healthy food shopping, food hygiene and health benefits of proper nutrition.

Aboriginal children of Central Australia suffer from life-threatening health problems due to poor nutrition caused by a number of inter-related factors. The Alice Springs Hospital, which spans over Central arid region of Australia look after these children who are suffering from Failure to Thrive, a term used to describe children who are significantly below the accepted level of weight, according to their age and height.

Aboriginal women in Central Australia are different from their counterparts in other region when it comes to family planning. Various contraceptive techniques are discussed such as intra-uterine devices, Lippes loop, and contraceptive pills which are widely used by Aboriginal women in this region.

Physical, mental and social health depends on the conditions under which people live, where the environment has to be cleanly maintained to avoid spread of diseases. Settled existences have to take care that the houses are not too close, prevent drinking water from pollution, proper sanitation, systematic garbage collection services, to lead to a healthy disease free living.

Aboriginal people in olden days learned about the food from their forefathers where everybody helped each other to know about the foods and how to use them. However, now the situation has changed and most of the foods are bought from the stores. Health workers need to help the store manager and the people working there to enable the people to learn more about food by way of posters, attractively arranging foods on shelves and providing different sizes of packets or tins of foods.

Food habits of Aboriginal people have changed over years. People in olden days got their food from land and sea while as time passed they were forced to change their ways and adopt the lifestyle with junk food, little exercise and resulting sickness. It is suggested that Aboriginal people need to be educated regarding how to spend enough money on the right kinds of food to keep their families strong.

Children who get sick with a cough and running nose (maybe sneezing, sore throat or sore ears as well) have a respiratory infection. If they get worse and become hot, they need medicine. Penicillin injections are the best medicine for this sickness.

Three studies conducted to investigate tobacco-use among Aboriginal people and its effects on health are discussed. All three studies differed on data collection, yet showing that a large percentage of Aboriginal people smoke cigarettes, and that most of them probably smoke about a pack of cigarettes each day.

Yirrkala Active Cooking is nutrition and physical activity program to support the Yoingu young people of Yirrkala Community located near Nhulunbuy. The program provides opportunities for Yoingu young people to learn about healthy food shopping, cooking skills and food hygiene.