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“I’m outta here!”: a qualitative investigation into why Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people self-discharge from hospital

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Occasions of self-discharge from health services before being seen by a health profession or against medical advice are often used by health systems as an indicator of quality care.
Deborah A. Askew, Wendy Foley, Corey Kirk, Daniel Williamson   +3 more
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Deadly developments: smoking cessation medicines accessed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia, 2006–2019 [PDF]

Public Health Research & Practice
Objectives and importance of the studyThe aims of this study were to examine trends in the annual rate of smoking cessation medicines (SCMs) supplied to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who smoke using dispensings by Services Australia from ...
Daniel Odo, Christina Heris, Raymond Lovett, Lisa Whop, Nicola Ball, Joanne Thandrayen, Michelle Kennedy, Raglan Maddox   +7 more
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The decline of smoking initiation among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students: implications for future policy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2020
Objective: Smoking is a major cause of preventable illness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with most commencing in adolescence. Understanding trends in youth tobacco use can inform prevention policies and programs.
Christina L. Heris, Nicola Guerin, David P. Thomas, Sandra J. Eades, Catherine Chamberlain, Victoria M. White   +5 more
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The recording of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status in general practice clinical records: a cross‐sectional study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2016
Objectives: To document the frequency of recording of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status in general practice (GP) clinical records and to establish associations of this recording.
Allison Thomson, Simon Morgan, Peter O'Mara, Amanda Tapley, Kim Henderson, Mieke van Driel, Christopher Oldmeadow, Jean Ball, John Scott, Neil Spike, Lawrie McArthur, Parker Magin   +11 more
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A mixed methods exploratory study tackling smoking during pregnancy in an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care service

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Pregnancy can be a time of joy and a time of significant stress. For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter, respectfully, Indigenous) women, cigarette smoking, even during pregnancy, is a socially sanctioned behavioural ...
Deborah A. Askew, Jillian Guy, Vivian Lyall, Sonya Egert, Lynne Rogers, Leigh-anne Pokino, Peggy Manton-Williams, Philip J. Schluter   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Better cardiac care – the patient experience – a qualitative study

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background In 2015, a Brisbane tertiary hospital’s cardiac unit implemented a new model of multidisciplinary care (Better Cardiac Care (BCC)) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
Warren Jennings, Sonya Egert, Celestine Fisher, Sonia Renouf, Vivian Bryce, Sean Grugan, William Wang, Deborah Askew   +7 more
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Culturally focused pre-surgery screening to reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient surgical cancellations

Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 2021
Background: There are health disparities in many countries between First Nations and non–First Nations populations. In Australia, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population have several risk factors and are more likely to experience higher ...
Cory Williams, Yashni Kander, King Law, Patricia Kennedy, Geoffrey Binge, Elizabeth Strathdee   +5 more
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Torres Strait Islander Women

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 1998
During some stage in their lives many Torres Strait Islanders, especially women will migrate to Australia in order to further their education, employment and training (Warrior, 1997). This paper focuses on a recent that I carried out among Torres Strait Islander women living on the mainland.
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Considering difference: clinician insights into providing equal and equitable burns care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objective: To better understand issues driving quality in burn care related to equity of outcomes and equality of provision for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
Sarah Fraser, Julian Grant, Tamara Mackean, Kate Hunter, Ngara Keeler, Kathleen Clapham, Dale W. Edgar, Kurt Towers, Warwick J. Teague, Rebecca Ivers   +9 more
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Assessing the quality of health research from an Indigenous perspective: the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander quality appraisal tool

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020
Background The lack of attention to Indigenous epistemologies and, more broadly, Indigenous values in primary research, is mirrored in the standardised critical appraisal tools used to guide evidence-based practice and systematic reviews and meta ...
Stephen Harfield, Odette Pearson, Kim Morey, Elaine Kite, Karla Canuto, Karen Glover, Judith Streak Gomersall, Drew Carter, Carol Davy, Edoardo Aromataris, Annette Braunack-Mayer   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source