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Promoting health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
2020This chapter focuses on how the reader can advance health promotion activities among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, what they know works and how they can build on positive improvements in health outcomes through the promotion of health and wellbeing.
Mahoney, Ray, Fleming, Mary-Louise
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Mind The Gap, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cardiovascular Health: A Narrative Review
Heart, Lung and Circulation, 2023Australia's First Nations Peoples, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, have reduced life expectancy compared to the wider community. Cardiovascular diseases, mainly driven by ischaemic heart disease, are the leading contributors to this disparity. Despite over a third of First Nations Peoples living in New South Wales, the bulk of the peer-reviewed
Michael McGee +11 more
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Healthy imaginations: A social history of the epidemiology of aboriginal and Torres strait islander health [PDF]
Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 2001 It is difficult to imagine Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health without the powerful descriptors of epidemiology. The statistical imagery of numerical tables, pie charts, and bar graphs have become a key element in the public presentation of Indigenous public health issues.
Mark Brough
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The Mental Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
International Journal of Mental Health, 1997(1997). The Mental Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. International Journal of Mental Health: Vol. 26, Mental Health Problems and Care of People in the South Pacific Area, pp. 9-22.
Beverley Raphael, Pat Swan
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Extracting the ESSENCE - Cardiovascular Health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Heart, Lung and Circulation, 2015The two papers in this edition of Heart Lung and Circulation describing the ESSENCE project Standards and the strategy for their development [1,2] are of the highest importance. They provide for the first time a broad ranging yet detailed description of the minimum standards of cardiovascular care that should be provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Leonard, Kritharides, Harry C, Lowe
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Australian Journal of Rural Health
ABSTRACT Aim To propose the novel role of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Allied Health Co‐Worker to address an urgent unmet need in rural and remote Australia that focuses on disability, rehabilitation and preventative health needs in a unique cultural context.
Alice Cairns +8 more
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ABSTRACT Aim To propose the novel role of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Allied Health Co‐Worker to address an urgent unmet need in rural and remote Australia that focuses on disability, rehabilitation and preventative health needs in a unique cultural context.
Alice Cairns +8 more
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Health Problems of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in Queensland
Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 1979On Friday 7 July 1978 Brisbane optometrist John Elliott gave evidence before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs. ‘The Health Problems of Aborigines’ was the subject of this enquiry. His study gives a comprehensive overview of present facilities and proposes meaningful and practicable improvements in the ...
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Genomics in research and health care with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Monash Bioethics Review, 2015Genomics is increasingly becoming an integral component of health research and clinical care. The perceived difficulties associated with genetic research involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people mean that they have largely been excluded as research participants.
Rebekah, McWhirter +2 more
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Tactics at the interface: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health managers
Social Science & Medicine, 2001Over the past thirty years in Australia, there has been a recognition of the need for increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in the management of their health services as part of the strategy to improve the poor health of Australia's indigenous peoples. The proliferation of Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services and the
Hill, P. S. +3 more
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research leadership
Medical Journal of Australia, 2022Candice, McKenzie, Lilon G, Bandler
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