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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Casemix Study
Medical Journal of Australia, 1998With increasing implementation of casemix-based funding for hospitals, quantitative data were needed to confirm the clinical impression that treating Aboriginal (compared with non-Aboriginal) inpatients consumes significantly more resources. Utilisation data, collected over a three-month period in 10 hospitals, were used to determine a cost per ...
D A, Fisher +3 more
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Depression and diabetes in the remote Torres Strait Islands
Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2016Issue addressedDiabetes is associated with significant depression, which can result in poorer clinical outcomes, including increased mortality. Little is known about the prevalence of depression among Torres Strait Islander adults with diabetes.MethodsSelf‐reported depression was measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)‐9 translated into ...
Taylor, Sean +3 more
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Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
2021This chapter invites you to learn more about Zenadth Des (Torres Straits) and that people who belong to it. In keeping with cultural safety, this chapter aims to highlight the limitation of colonial perceptions of Islanders.
Drummond, Ali +3 more
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The butterflies of the Torres Strait Islands: A fauna in review
2021Detailed collation of butterfly collecting and observational data from the Torres Strait islands has allowed comprehensive checklists and distribution maps to be constructed, and analyses of these data for the first time. The results obtained have provided a better understanding of biogeographical relationships between the butterfly faunas of these ...
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
2020This chapter will offer the reader an understanding of the meanings of health from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective and brief overview of the impact of European colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in relation to health outcomes. It will also provide an overview of the Australian health care system including
McMillan Faye +2 more
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Acculturation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002The health status of Australia’s indigenous people remains the worst of any subgroup within the population, and there is little evidence of any significant improvement over the past two decades, a situation unprecedented on a world scale. Compared with non‐indigenous Australians, adult life expectancy is reduced by 15−20 years, with twice the rates of ...
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Journal of Australian Studies, 2012
Since the end of the Second World War, the Torres Strait Islander diaspora located on the mainland of Australia has grown to the extent that it now represents just over 85 percent (40,367 people) of the total Torres Strait Islander population. The continued presence of Islanders living outside their ancestral home islands has called into question this ...
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Since the end of the Second World War, the Torres Strait Islander diaspora located on the mainland of Australia has grown to the extent that it now represents just over 85 percent (40,367 people) of the total Torres Strait Islander population. The continued presence of Islanders living outside their ancestral home islands has called into question this ...
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Queensland and the annexation of the Torres Straits Islands
Australian Outlook, 1973(1973). Queensland and the annexation of the Torres Straits Islands. Australian Outlook: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 215-226.
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Liaison Psychiatry with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2009Objective: The aim of the present study was to describe the referral patterns, assessment and suggested management of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples referred to an inner-city general hospital psychiatry service. The overarching goal was quality improvement.
Anne P F, Wand +2 more
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The Fabric of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing: A Conceptual Model
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021Gail Garvey +2 more
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