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Invasive pneumococcal disease in New South Wales, Australia: reporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status improves epidemiology

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2011
The aim of this work was to determine the feasibility of improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status recording for notifiable diseases using all Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD) notifications in a regional area of New South Wales, Australia.
David N Durrheim, Kylie Taylor, Maggi Osbourn, Kerry Todd, Peter D Massey   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Suitability and Acceptability of the Think-Aloud Method to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Adults

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2023
Background There is a long history of research being conducted on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that has offered questionable benefit but occasioned great distress and distrust.
Alana Gall, Kirsten Howard, Kate Anderson, Abbey Diaz, Gail Garvey   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cardiac Rehabilitation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Western Australia [PDF]

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2016
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Australia. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) people have higher levels of CVD compared with non-Indigenous people. Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) is an evidence-based intervention that can assist with reducing subsequent cardiovascular events and ...
Sandra Hamilton, Belynda Mills, Shelley McRae, Sandra Thompson   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Editorial

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2017
We are very pleased to bring you Volume 46 of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. This year is a particularly significant time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues and education. It marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark Mabo
Katelyn Barney, Martin Nakata
doaj   +1 more source

Management of encounters related to subfertility and infertility in Australian general practice: a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females

BMC Women's Health, 2023
Objective To investigate the management of subfertility and infertility among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females attending Australian general practice.
E Gilbert, A. Rumbold, S. Campbell, J. A. Boyle, L. Grzeskowiak   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households: The Melbourne Access Point Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley, Guy Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generating evidence to inform responsive and effective actions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent health and well-being: a mix method protocol for evidence integration ‘the Roadmap Project’

BMJ Open
Background Australia does not have a national strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent health and as a result, policy and programming actions are fragmented and may not be responsive to needs. Efforts to date have also rarely engaged
Alex Brown, Peter Azzopardi, Jaameeta Kurji, Karla Canuto, Rachel Reilly, Seth Westhead, Odette Pearson, Daniel McDonough, Salenna Elliott, India Shackleford, Brittney Andrews, Felicity Andrews, Sally Cooke, Mahlia Garay, Thomas Harrington, Corey Kennedy, Jaeda Lenoy, Monique Maclaine, Hannah McCleary, Lorraine Randall, Hamish Rose, Daniel Rosendale, Jakirah Telfer, Tina Brodie, James Charles   +24 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak, Tamara Blakemore, Elsie Randall, Meaghan Katrak Harris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tackling Indigenous smoking: a good news story in Australian tobacco control

Public Health Research & Practice, 2020
There is good news to tell about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tobacco control: smoking prevalence is falling and government funding has been secured in a climate of under-investment in prevention.
David P Thomas , Tom Calma
doaj   +1 more source