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Using Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme data to understand the use of smoking cessation medicines by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objective: To examine the supply of smoking cessation medicines to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers compared to non‐Indigenous smokers across Australia.
Samuel Keitaanpaa, Alan Cass, Marita Hefler, David P. Thomas   +3 more
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Envisioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AI Futures Communique: March 2025

Journal of Global Indigeneity
In January 2025, over forty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers, practitioners, community members, and allies, gathered at the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures at the Wallumattagal Campus of Macquarie University in Sydney to envisage ...
Rose Barrowcliffe, Ben Hutchinson, Angie Abdilla, Lesley Acres, Bianca Beetson, Aaron Bell, Penelope Benton, Becky Bligh, Robert Bowen, Nichola Burton, Bronwyn Carlson, Renee Cawthorne, Andrew Hammond, Innez Haua, Courtney Henry, Bernadette Hyland-Wood, Rebecca Lyons, Robert McLellan, Georgia Mokak, Levi Murray, Lotus Rana, Cassandra Sedran-Price, Peter Sefton, Ryan Stoker, Narissa Timbery, Danilo Urzedo, Phoebe Weston-Evans, Tamika Worrell, Shevaun Wright, Becki Cook, Andrew Farrell, Dennis Fay, John Fejo, Jenny Fewster, Neenah Gray, David Hackman   +35 more
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“This is my boy’s health! Talk straight to me!” perspectives on accessible and culturally safe care among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients of clinical genetics services

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people do not enjoy equal access to specialist health services that adequately meet their needs. Clinical genetics services are at the vanguard of realising the health benefits of genomic medicine.
Philippa Dalach, Ravi Savarirayan, Gareth Baynam, Julie McGaughran, Emma Kowal, Libby Massey, Misty Jenkins, Yin Paradies, Margaret Kelaher   +8 more
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A rapid review to inform the policy and practice for the implementation of chronic disease prevention and management programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in primary care

Health Research Policy and Systems
Background More than 35% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults live with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease. There is a pressing need for chronic disease prevention and management among Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Uday Narayan Yadav, Jasmine Meredith Davis, Keziah Bennett-Brook, Julieann Coombes, Rosemary Wyber, Odette Pearson   +5 more
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The acceptability of the Good Spirit, Good Life framework for remote-living Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

SSM - Mental Health
Purpose: The Good Spirit, Good Life (GSGL) framework is a culturally informed quality of life (QoL) model co-designed with and for older Aboriginal people in Australia.
Lianne Gilchrist, Leon Flicker, Dawn Bessarab, Roslyn Malay, Laurie Yambo, Betty Sagigi, Chenoa Wapau, Sarah Russell, Rachel Quigley, Caleb Rivers, Zoë Hyde, Esther Chaney, Edward Strivens, Christianne White, Kate Smith   +14 more
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Strategic approaches to enhanced health service delivery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic illness: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2012
Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic illness confront multiple challenges that contribute to their poor health outcomes, and to the health disparities that exist in Australian society. This study aimed to identify barriers
Aspin Clive, Brown Ngiare, Jowsey Tanisha, Yen Laurann, Leeder Stephen   +4 more
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“You’re telling us to go first?!” COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination experiences among Aboriginal adults in Western Australia

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Globally, Indigenous populations have been disproportionately impacted by pandemics. In Australia, though national infection rates with COVID-19 infections in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people were lower in the first 12 months of the COVID ...
Samantha J. Carlson, Carla Puca, Paige Wood-Kenney, Justin Kickett, Valerie Swift, Katie Attwell, Christopher C. Blyth   +6 more
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INdigenous Systems and Policies Improved and Reimagined for Ear and hearing care (INSPIRE): a multi-method study protocol

BMJ Open
Introduction Otitis media (middle ear disease) severity and chronicity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as gaps in socioeconomic outcomes related to hearing loss, indicates a breakdown in the current ear and hearing care system.
Catherine McMahon, Hasantha Gunasekera, Rona Macniven, Kelvin Kong, Kylie Gwynne, Kai Nash, Yvonne Dimitropoulos, Mark Fitzpatrick, Luke Halvorsen, Noeleen Lumby, Carmen Parter, Amanda Wingett   +11 more
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Hepatitis C in South Australia And Northern Territory: A Population-Based Linkage Study

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
Introduction In Australia, the notification rate for hepatitis C is 5 times greater among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples than non‑Indigenous populations (164 vs. 35 per 100,000).
Jacqueline H Stephens, Clare Bradley, Salenna Elliott, Gregory Dore, Jason Grebely, Maryam Alavi, Brendan Kennedy, Steven Tong, James Ward   +8 more
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Yarning about vaccinations: Empowering individuals to have supportive conversations with Aboriginal peoples about vaccinations, using a community-engaged approach

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of Aboriginal-led vaccine workshops to enhance knowledge, confidence and supportive conversations regarding scheduled and recommended vaccinations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Hunter
E. Harwood, K. Taylor, K. Clark, P. Murray, J. Stephenson, K. Bolsewicz, J. Leask, K. Crooks   +7 more
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