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Exploring the use of the aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander quality appraisal tool in Indigenous health research. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Med Res Methodol
Wessel S   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Co-Designing an Antiracist Dental Health System: Protocol for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-Led Mixed Methods Study.

open access: yesJMIR Res Protoc
Poirier B   +23 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing

2021
This 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

2020
This 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Acculturation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002
The 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 ...
openaire   +3 more sources

My island home: re-presenting identities for Torres Strait Islanders living outside the Torres Strait

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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Casemix Study

Medical Journal of Australia, 1998
With 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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Mainland Torres Strait Islander Songwriters and the 'Magical Islands' of the Torres Strait: Songs as Identity Narratives

2020
Islands are not only physical places; they can also be metaphorical spaces for connecting with cultural and social origins, especially for diasporic populations separated by time, place and situation from their origins (Hall, 1990). In some cases, they may become 'magical islands' - that is, more imagined than real, more idealized than objectively ...
Lawe Davies, Chris, Neuenfeldt, Karl
openaire   +1 more source

Post-Colonialism (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders)

2020
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can experience discrimination due to individual, group and systemic oppressions. Individual and community attitudes and experiences of discrimination can impact on a person’s wellbeing, Allied health professionals are constantly called on to recognise the multi-layered impact of colonialism on those who seek
Morseu-Diop, Norrita   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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