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Challenges and opportunities in providing dementia care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in rural and remote areas

Dementia, 2022
Dementia rates within Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations are estimated to be three to five times higher than non-Indigenous populations.
Helen M. Haydon, Anthony C. Smith, Lauren Gleed, M. Neuhaus, S. Lawton, L. Caffery   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and the Burden of Stroke

International Journal of Stroke, 2007
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples comprise about 2·4% of the Australian population. There is little information about stroke among these groups of people. Most information comes from national mortality and hospital morbidity data, and population-based surveys of risk factors.
Thrift, Amanda G., Hayman, Noel
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Use of emergency departments by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2006
AbstractObjective:  To review published Australian literature about ED care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.Method:  Six databases were searched electronically for articles about ED use by Indigenous people in Australia. This strategy was complemented by manual searches of two websites, Emergency Medicine (1994–2004) and three ...
David P, Thomas, Ian P S, Anderson
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Australian Health Review
BackgroundIn Australia, medications can be prescribed by medical practitioners, dentists, nurses, and dispensed by pharmacists. Until recently, pharmacists have been limited to prescribing Schedule 2 and 3 medications, and optometrists, podiatrists, and ...
Cara Cross, Vita Christie, Leanne Holt, B. Rambaldini, Katrina Ward, John C. Skinner, Connie Henson, D. Mccowen, S. Benrimoj, Sarah Dineen-Griffin, K. Gwynne   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Dynamics of the policy environment and trauma in relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the settler-colonial state

Critical Social Policy, 2021
This integrative review seeks to employ insights from critical social psychology and Indigenous nation building governance research to advance an explanation for why Australian state policy continually fails to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres ...
A. Vivian, Michael J. Halloran
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Systemic lupus erythematosus in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia: addressing disparities and barriers to optimising patient care.

The Lancet Rheumatology
The first inhabitants of Australia and the traditional owners of Australian lands are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are two to four times more likely to have systemic lupus erythematosus (
Laura E. Eades, A. Hoi, Ruaidhri Liddle, J. Sines, R. Kandane-Rathnayake, Sachin Khetan, J. Nossent, Greta Lindenmayer, E. Morand, D. Liew, M. Rischmueller, S. Brady, Alex Brown, F. Vincent   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Review of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, 2022
Diabetes is the fastest growing chronic disease condition globally. Type 2 diabetes in particular, has reached epidemic proportions, with the greatest burden falling on socially disadvantaged groups and Indigenous peoples. This review focuses primarily on type 2 diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, which is responsible for the ...
Ride, Katherine, Burrow, Samantha
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Heart failure outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Hunter New England region of New South Wales.

International Journal of Cardiology, 2021
Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suffer poor health outcomes, driven predominately by cardiovascular disease. Previous work has focused on remote communities although majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients live in ...
M. McGee, S. Sugito, M. Al-Omary, D. Hartnett, T. Senanayake, K. Hales, Tazeen Majeed, D. Ngo, P. Oakley, J. Leitch, A. Sverdlov, A. Boyle   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Responsive service design and workforce strengthening: Recommendations to improve aged care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Australasian Journal on Ageing
This study aimed to develop innovative and practical strategies and recommendations for aged care policy and practice that support the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
O. Pearson, A. Parrella, J. Zagler, K. Morey, Yasamin Veziari, Alex Brown   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source