Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance
Framework - 2010 1.14 Community Functioning Why is it
important?:A functioning is a state of being or doing that
people have reason to value. Measuring functionings is an
important supplement to the more traditional approach to the
measurement of health and wellbeing. This measure seeks to
describe, both in aggregate and as single measures, the level of
key functionings Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
have described as important to the quality of, and equality in,
life. Life is multidimensional and it cannot easily or
accurately be measured by reference to just one facet. Measures
of functionings add value to health analyses by helping to frame
more traditional, single issue measures in a quality of life
construct defined by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples. Health providers, planners and health and social policy
interests need to know more than the level of sickness in a
community if they are to work with communities and famil