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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

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide in Context [PDF]

Archives of Suicide Research, 2006
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide has been an issue of national public health and mental health concern for only one decade, having increased dramatically from levels that were very low in the late 1980s to levels of young adult male suicide that are now substantially higher than for the non-indigenous population. In this review the authors
Hunter, Ernest, Milroy, Helen
openaire   +4 more sources

Changing discourses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, 1914-2014 [PDF]

, 2014
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people strongly assert that health research has contributed little to improving their health, in spite of its obvious potential.
Bainbridge, Roxanne, Thomas, David, Tsey, Komla   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Invasive pneumococcal disease in New South Wales, Australia: reporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status improves epidemiology

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2011
The aim of this work was to determine the feasibility of improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status recording for notifiable diseases using all Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD) notifications in a regional area of New South Wales, Australia.
David N Durrheim, Kylie Taylor, Maggi Osbourn, Kerry Todd, Peter D Massey   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households: The Melbourne Access Point Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley, Guy Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Matters 2 Adults: a study protocol to develop a new preference-based wellbeing measure with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults (WM2Adults)

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Understandings of health and wellbeing are culturally bound. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people perceive wellbeing and quality of life (QOL) differently from the Western biomedical models of health underpinning existing QOL ...
Kirsten Howard, Kate Anderson, Joan Cunningham, Alan Cass, Julie Ratcliffe, Lisa J. Whop, Michelle Dickson, Rosalie Viney, Brendan Mulhern, Allison Tong, Gail Garvey   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and health [PDF]

Medical Journal of Australia, 2009
Free to read on journal website (may need to create free account first) Economic interventions to improve access to healthy ...
Lee, Amanda J., Leonard, Dympna, Moloney, Aletia A., Minniecon, Deanne L.   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

'Big mobs in the city now' : the increasing number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in urban areas [PDF]

, 2008
The locations and settings in which Australian Indigenous people live varies, however over 70 % of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia now live in urban or regional urban areas (ABS 2008). Over half of the total population lives
Barty, Robert, Fredericks, Bronwyn L., Leitch, Angela   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak, Tamara Blakemore, Elsie Randall, Meaghan Katrak Harris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster, Ashleigh Powell, Claire Hutchinson, Richard Leibbrandt, Svetlana Bogomolova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source