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Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and health [PDF]

Medical Journal of Australia, 2009
Free to read on journal website (may need to create free account first) Economic interventions to improve access to healthy ...
Lee, Amanda J., Leonard, Dympna, Moloney, Aletia A., Minniecon, Deanne L.   +3 more
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The impact of vicarious trauma on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health researchers [PDF]

Public Health Research and Practice, 2021
Aim: To describe and reflect on an Aboriginal researcher’s experience of vicarious trauma arising from a qualitative study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with chronic disease. Methods: In-depth semistructured interviews
Eades, AM, Hackett, M, Raven, M, Liu, H, Cass, A   +4 more
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Access to Aboriginal Community-Controlled Primary Health Organizations Can Explain Some of the Higher Pap Test Participation Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women in North Queensland, Australia

Frontiers in Oncology, 2021
BackgroundAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community-Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) provides culturally appropriate primary care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. The population of North Queensland has a higher
Paramita Dasgupta, John R. Condon, Lisa J. Whop, Joanne F. Aitken, Joanne F. Aitken, Joanne F. Aitken, Joanne F. Aitken, Gail Garvey, Mark Wenitong, Peter D. Baade, Peter D. Baade, Peter D. Baade   +11 more
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“I’m outta here!”: a qualitative investigation into why Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people self-discharge from hospital

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Occasions of self-discharge from health services before being seen by a health profession or against medical advice are often used by health systems as an indicator of quality care.
Deborah A. Askew, Wendy Foley, Corey Kirk, Daniel Williamson   +3 more
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A discourse analysis of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander COVID‐19 policy response

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objective: To analyse the implicit discourses within the COVID‐19 policy response for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote communities. Method: This paper uses Bacchi's ‘What is the Problem Represented to Be’ framework to analyse the Emergency ...
Monica Donohue, Ailie McDowall
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Caring for country and the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians [PDF]

Medical Journal of Australia, 2017
Schultz R and Cairney S. Caring for country and the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Med J Aust 2017; 207 (1): 8-10. © Copyright 2017. The Medical Journal of Australia - reproduced with permission.
Shultz, Rosalie, Cairney, Sheree
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Better cardiac care – the patient experience – a qualitative study

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background In 2015, a Brisbane tertiary hospital’s cardiac unit implemented a new model of multidisciplinary care (Better Cardiac Care (BCC)) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
Warren Jennings, Sonya Egert, Celestine Fisher, Sonia Renouf, Vivian Bryce, Sean Grugan, William Wang, Deborah Askew   +7 more
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Fire and Smoke: Using Indigenous Research Methodologies to Explore the Psychosocial Impact of Pediatric Burns on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and adolescents are disproportionately affected by burn injuries, yet often omitted from burns literature or inadequately portrayed under Western frameworks.
Hayley M. Williams, Kate Hunter, Bronwyn Griffin, Roy Kimble, Kathleen Clapham   +4 more
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Culturally focused pre-surgery screening to reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient surgical cancellations

Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 2021
Background: There are health disparities in many countries between First Nations and non–First Nations populations. In Australia, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population have several risk factors and are more likely to experience higher ...
Cory Williams, Yashni Kander, King Law, Patricia Kennedy, Geoffrey Binge, Elizabeth Strathdee   +5 more
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The health of older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples [PDF]

Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2016
The health of Aboriginal Australians is poorer than that of all other Indigenous cultures in developed nations, and recent studies suggest high rates of dementia and other conditions that are common in old age. This has implications for health promotion, provision of services and planning for older age in these communities.
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