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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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Exploring self-determined solutions to service and system challenges to promote social and emotional wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a qualitative study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionMany Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living on Kaurna Country in northern Adelaide experience adverse health and social circumstances.
Anna P. Dawson, Anna P. Dawson, Eugene Warrior, Odette Pearson, Odette Pearson, Mark A. Boyd, Mark A. Boyd, Judith Dwyer, Kim Morey, Tina Brodie, Kurt Towers, Sonia Waters, Cynthia Avila, Courtney Hammond, Katherine J. Lake, Katherine J. Lake, ‘Uncle’ Frank Lampard, ‘Uncle’ Frank Lampard, ‘Uncle’ Frank Wanganeen, Olive Bennell, Darrien Bromley, Toni Shearing, Nathan Rigney, Schania Czygan, Nikki Clinch, Andrea Pitson, Alex Brown, Alex Brown, Natasha J. Howard, Natasha J. Howard   +29 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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Development of a Decolonising Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Policy Analysis in Australia

International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2022
Analysis of policies relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples could help improve health outcomes—a critical challenge in Australia. While there are many health policy analysis frameworks, we did not find one which supported decolonising
Helen Kehoe, Heike Schütze, Geoffrey Spurling, Raymond Lovett   +3 more
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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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Optimising Hepatitis C care in an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care clinic

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2019
Objective: Describe the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) attending an urban Indigenous primary health clinic (IPHC) in Brisbane, Australia.
Prabha Lakhan, Deborah Askew, Noel Hayman, Leigh‐anne Pokino, Cheryl Sendall, Paul J. Clark   +5 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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A mixed methods exploratory study tackling smoking during pregnancy in an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care service

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Pregnancy can be a time of joy and a time of significant stress. For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter, respectfully, Indigenous) women, cigarette smoking, even during pregnancy, is a socially sanctioned behavioural ...
Deborah A. Askew, Jillian Guy, Vivian Lyall, Sonya Egert, Lynne Rogers, Leigh-anne Pokino, Peggy Manton-Williams, Philip J. Schluter   +7 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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