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Hepatocellular carcinoma amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia

EClinicalMedicine, 2021
Background: Liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are important contributors to the mortality gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Alan J Wigg, Sumudu K Narayana, Gunter Hartel, Linda Medlin, Greg Pratt, Elizabeth E. Powell, Paul Clark, Jane Davies, Kirsty Campbell, Maree Toombs, Michael Larkin, Patricia C Valery   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies to optimise culturally appropriate perioperative care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: A discussion paper

Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 2023
The disparity in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians continues to increase. Barriers to accessing health care, particularly surgical treatment, contribute to health inequalities among Indigenous Australians.
Maureen Joye, Paula Foran
doaj   +1 more source

The prevalence and causes of vision loss in indigenous and non-indigenous Australians [PDF]

, 2017
Purpose: To conduct a nationwide survey on the prevalence and causes of vision impairment and blindness in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Design: Nationwide, cross-sectional, population-based field survey.
Ang, Ghee S., Bourne, Rupert R. A., Crowston, Jonathan G., Dirani, Mohamed, Foreman, Joshua, Gaskin, Jennifer F., Keel, Stuart, Sandhu, Sukhpal S., Taylor, Hugh R., van Wijngaarden, Peter, Xie, Jing   +10 more
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Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
We examine the high levels of financial stress among Indigenous populations in Australia. We estimate separate models for the determinants of financial stress for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous households and show the importance of separately considering Indigenous disadvantage. We use these models to build equivalence scales for both groups.
Breunig, Robert, Hasan, Syed, Hunter, Boyd   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Cancer survival for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: a national study of survival rates and excess mortality [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundNational cancer survival statistics are available for the total Australian population but not Indigenous Australians, although their cancer mortality rates are known to be higher than those of other Australians.
Baade, Peter D., Condon, John R., Coory, Michael, Cunningham, Joan, Griffiths, Kalinda E., Jelfs, Paul L., Roder, David M., Threlfall, Tim, Zhang, Xiaohua   +8 more
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The missing voices of Indigenous Australians in the social, cultural and historical experiences of tuberculosis: a systematic and integrative review

BMJ Global Health, 2019
Introduction Disparities in tuberculosis (TB) rates exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in many countries, including Australia. The social determinants of health are central to health inequities including disparities in TB rates ...
Sue Devlin, David MacLaren, Peter D Massey, Richard Widders, Jenni A Judd   +4 more
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Left atrial, pulmonary vein, and left atrial appendage anatomy in Indigenous individuals: Implications for atrial fibrillation

International Journal of Cardiology: Heart & Vasculature, 2021
Background: Indigenous Australians experience a greater burden of AF. Whether this is in-part due to differences in arrhythmogenic structures that appear to contribute to AF differences amongst other ethnicities is not known.
Nicholas A.R. Clarke, Nadarajah Kangaharan, Benedict Costello, Samuel J. Tu, Nicole Hanna-Rivero, Kim Le, Ian Agahari, Wai Kah Choo, Bradley M. Pitman, Celine Gallagher, Kawa Haji, Kurt C. Roberts-Thomson, Prashanthan Sanders, Christopher X. Wong   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heart failure among Indigenous Australians: a systematic review

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2012
Background Cardiovascular diseases contribute substantially to the poor health and reduced life expectancy of Indigenous Australians. Heart failure is a common, disabling, progressive and costly complication of these disorders.
Woods John A, Katzenellenbogen Judith M, Davidson Patricia M, Thompson Sandra C   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in Indigenous Australians [PDF]

, 2014
Author version made available in accordance with Publisher copyright policy.The purpose of this review is to compare the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians with Diabetes Mellitus (DM).
Burdon, Kathryn Penelope, Craig, Jamie E, Kaidonis, Georgia, Lake, Stewart, Landers, John, Mills, Richard Arthur   +5 more
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Indigenous land management as primary health care: qualitative analysis from the Interplay research project in remote Australia

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background For Indigenous Australians, health transcends the absence of disease, and includes the health and wellbeing of their community and Country: their whole physical, cultural and spiritual environment.
Rosalie Schultz, Tammy Abbott, Jessica Yamaguchi, Sheree Cairney   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source