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Overview of Australian Indigenous health status 2014 [PDF]

This Overview of Australian Indigenous health status provides information about: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations; the context of Indigenous health; various measures of population health status; selected health conditions; and health ...
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
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International Women's Reproductive Health: Supporting Local Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2016
This paper describes the Global Development and Population Program's sub-strategy for strengthening the quality and effectiveness of advocacy by locally-based, indigenous groups targeting national or sub-national family planning and reproductive health ...

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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
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Short screening tools for risky drinking in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: modified AUDIT-C and a new approach

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2019
Background Alcohol consumption among Indigenous Australians can involve a stop-start pattern of drinking, with consumption well above recommended guidelines on each occasion.
K. S. Kylie Lee, James H. Conigrave, Scott Wilson, Jimmy Perry, Sarah Callinan, Robin Room, Tanya N. Chikritzhs, Tim Slade, Noel Hayman, Geoffrey Leggat, Katherine M. Conigrave   +10 more
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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy, Bhiamie Williamson, Jesse Williams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing the effectiveness of Family Spirit Strengths (FSS) – a culturally informed intervention designed to prevent mental health and substance misuse for indigenous families through home visiting

BMC Public Health
Background Families represent the foundation of health for many Indigenous communities. Yet, Indigenous women, particularly women of the age who are starting families, face profound challenges related to mental health and substance use.
Leonela Nelson, Laura Mata Lopez, Shannon Archuleta, Stephanie Skavenski Van Wyk, Elizabeth Kushman, Lisa Martin, Kristin Mitchell, Elizabeth Leffler, Timothy R. Werwie, Christopher G. Kemp, Reese F. Cuddy, Emily E. Haroz   +11 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Programs supporting incarcerated and previously incarcerated indigenous peoples: a scoping review protocol

International Journal of Circumpolar Health
The overincarceration of Indigenous peoples and its impacts on individual and community health is a growing concern across Canada and the United States.
Aisha Faruqui, Gabriel B. Tjong, Helana Marie Boutros, Sterling Stutz, Angela Mashford-Pringle   +4 more
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Indigenous peoples health in the arctic

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2004
Health practitioners, health researchers, scientists, goverment officials, ladies and gentlemen: As president of ICC Greenland, and Vice-Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, I have a deeply vested interest in the work you do, and in this 12th Congress.
openaire   +3 more sources

A review of programs that targeted environmental determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health [PDF]

This review finds that there are relatively few papers describing interventions that target environmental determinants of Indigenous health.Abstract: Objective: Effective interventions to improve population and individual health require environmental ...
Leah Johnston
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