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Overweight and obesity among Indigenous children: individual and social determinants [PDF]

, 2014
Factors influencing obesity are not confined to the health portfolio, argues this paper. Instead the factors occur across portfolios including housing, education, employment, social welfare and community development.
Katherine Thurber, Anne-Marie Boxall, Krister Partel   +2 more
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Feasibility and acceptability of opportunistic screening to detect atrial fibrillation in Aboriginal adults

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2019
Objective: Examine the feasibility and acceptability of an electrocardiogram (ECG) attached to a mobile phone (iECG) screening device for atrial fibrillation (AF) in Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Services (ACCHS) and other community settings ...
Rona Macniven, Josephine Gwynn, Hiroko Fujimoto, Sandy Hamilton, Sandra C. Thompson, Kerry Taylor, Monica Lawrence, Heather Finlayson, Graham Bolton, Norman Dulvari, Daryl C. Wright, Boe Rambaldini, Ben Freedman, Kylie Gwynne   +13 more
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Reported Māori consumer experiences of health systems and programs in qualitative research: a systematic review with meta-synthesis

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Persistent inequities in health experiences and outcomes are observed for Māori compared to non-Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. We conceptualised factors associated with Māori consumer experiences of health programs and services and ...
Suetonia C. Palmer, Harriet Gray, Tania Huria, Cameron Lacey, Lutz Beckert, Suzanne G. Pitama   +5 more
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: 2015 [PDF]

, 2015
Examines the differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, as well as differences by factors such as age, sex and, in particular remoteness.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham, Jesica Siham Fernández   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2012 report: New South Wales [PDF]

, 2013
This report provides the latest information on how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in New South Wales are faring according to a range of indicators on health status, determinants of health and health system performance.

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The relationship between internalised weight bias and biopsychosocial outcomes in children and youth: a systematic review

Journal of Eating Disorders
Objective To synthesise the evidence on the relationships between internalised weight bias (IWB) and biopsychosocial health outcomes in individuals ≤ 25 years.
Tiarna Foster, Melissa Eaton, Yasmine Probst   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic Variation in ADHD‐Related Risk Genes in an Indigenous Population of the Amazon

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder; however, its genetic architecture remains poorly explored in Indigenous populations. This study aimed to analyze and characterize genetic variation in 11 genes (ADGRL3, CDH8, DCC, DUSP6, FOXP1, FOXP2, MEF2C, PCDH7, SEMA6D, SORCS3, and ST3GAL3 ...
Hirlesson Paixão de Matos, Natasha Monte, Kaio Evandro Cardoso Aguiar, Rita de Cássia Calderaro, Aline Pasquini Santos, Juliana Carla Gomes Rodrigues, André Maurício Ribeiro‐Dos‐Santos, Sandro José De Souza, Ândrea Ribeiro‐Dos‐Santos, João Farias Guerreiro, Sidney Emanuel Batista Dos Santos, Ney Pereira Carneiro Dos Santos   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2010-11 [PDF]

, 2013
This report presents estimates of health expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their non-Indigenous counterparts for 2010-11. The reports are produced every 2 years. This is the seventh report in the series.

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