Australia's national body for community-controlled health providers has welcomed a report highlighting the inequities in health and well-being experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in prison.

On Monday, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) said the National Review of First Nations Health Care in Prisons outlines "vital recommendations for transformative change".

"Access to culturally safe and effective health care is a basic human right, yet Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in prisons and youth detention continue to face significant health inequities," NACCHO chief executive, Pat Turner, said.

In response to the report, the Health Minister's from across the country said in a joint statement: "We commit to developing an approach to implementation in 2025, in partnership with the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) sector, other key First Nations stakeholders, and Ministers responsible for corrections and youth justice."

NACCHO said they backed the recommendations of the Review, subject to three fundamental principles.

They called for solutions to be driven and determined by Indigenous peoples and communities; guaranteed adequate funding for ACCHS capacity building, infrastructure for ACCHS-led health care in detention facilities and addressing workforce development needs through a needs-based funding model; and empowering ACCHSs to define and deliver primary health care tailored to their communities' needs in prisons.

Ms Turner said the country could not continue to "accept the unacceptable".

She called for a "genuine partnership" to co-design an implementation plan, arguing: "This must be an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led process, fully resourced, and rooted in self-determination to achieve meaningful and sustained change."

Latest data shows 35.5 per cent of the prison population in Australia are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, with an incarceration rate of 2,701 persons per 100,000 adults.

As a result, Australia is not meeting its Closing the Gap target of reducing the rate of First Nations adults held in incarceration by 15 per cent by 2031.

NACCHO said they were ready to work with governments, as well as corrections authorities and other stakeholders, to implement the Review's findings in partnership with the ACCH sector.

"This is a pivotal moment for reform," Ms Turner said.

"Governments must urgently act on the Review's recommendations, working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to develop solutions that uphold human rights and address the root causes of over-representation in detention."