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Indigenous health
How can hospitals better identify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients to assist medication use?
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Erin Sclater · Pauline Deweerd · Sylvia Bridle · Susan Welch
General medicine Indigenous outreach registrar training in rural Queensland
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Paul Jauncey · Scott McKenzie · Rohan Corpus · Kwun M Fong · Darren L Walters
Low HIV testing rates among people with a sexually transmissible infection diagnosis in remote Aboriginal communities
Adhering to screening recommendations is essential to avoiding increased HIV infection rates in remote communities
James S Ward · Amalie Dyda · Skye McGregor · Alice Rumbold · Linda Garton · Basil Donovan · John M Kaldor · Rebecca J Guy
The health of indigenous and tribal peoples across the world: The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration
A collaborative study provides global data on indigenous and tribal health
Romlie Mokak
Towards an integrated model for child and family services in central Australia
An innovative model for the delivery of child and family services
Donna Ah Chee · John D Boffa · Edward Tilton
Are Indigenous mortality gaps closing: how to tell, and when?
Lags between policy and outcomes mean it is important to have good metrics and the right expectations about timelines
Ian T Ring · Tracy Dixon · Raymond W Lovett · Fadwa Al-Yaman
We need transformative change in Aboriginal health
Overcoming the soft bigotry of low expectations
Shane Houston
Access to contraception for remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: necessary but not sufficient
Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care contributes to the autonomy of Indigenous women
Sarah L Larkins · Priscilla Page
Carers of Indigenous children: services and systems failure? Where to next?
We need to find solutions that adequately engage Indigenous carers in mental health care
Beth Mah · Kym M Rae
Uptake of long-acting, reversible contraception in three remote Aboriginal communities: a population-based study
The high acceptability of LARCS in these communities concords with international recommendations on contraception
Emma K Griffiths · Julia V Marley · Domenica Friello · David N Atkinson
Psychological distress in carers of Aboriginal children in urban New South Wales: findings from SEARCH (phase one)
Carers with functional limitations or a history of treatment for mental health problems may require additional support
Anna B Williamson · Catherine A D’Este · Kathleen F Clapham · Sandra J Eades · Sally Redman · Beverley Raphael
Increasing Indigenous self-harm and suicide in the Kimberley: an audit of the 2005–2014 data
Rates of suicide and self-harm are alarmingly high
Catherine McHugh · Anita Campbell · Murray Chapman · Sivasankaran Balaratnasingam
Spirometry reference values in Indigenous Australians: a systematic review
Given the importance of spirometry testing on respiratory diagnosis and treatment, there is an urgent need for accurate and validated reference values for Indigenous Australians
Tamara L Blake · Anne B Chang · Helen L Petsky · Leanne T Rodwell · Michael G Brown · Debra C Hill · Bruce Thompson · Margaret S McElrea
Time for a shift in focus to improve food affordability for remote customers
Action is need to make healthy food affordable for residents of remote communities
Megan Ferguson MPH, PGDipNutDiet, BSc · Alastair King · Julie K Brimblecombe PhD, MPH, GradDipNutDiet
Strengthening primary health care to improve Indigenous health outcomes
We need better, more culturally sensitive models for delivering primary care
John Wakerman MTH, FAFPHM, FACRRM · Cindy Shannon BA, MBA, DSocSci
Aileen Joy Plant
Professor Aileen Plant (1948–2007) was a renowned medical epidemiologist and an outstanding global public health leader
Moira McKinnon MB BS, FAFPHM
Primary Health Networks and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Ten ways that Primary Health Networks can help to close the gap
Sophia Couzos FAFPHM, FACRRM, FRACGP · Dea Delaney-Thiele PGDipHlthMgt, MPH · Priscilla Page BASc
Cord blood vitamin D and the risk of acute lower respiratory infection in Indigenous infants in the Northern Territory
Supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy may prevent vitamin D insufficiency in infants and subsequent acute respiratory infections
Michael J Binks PhD, BSc, BHSc · Heidi C Smith-Vaughan PhD · Robyn Marsh PhD · Anne B Chang MB BD, FRACP, PhD · Ross M Andrews PhD, MPH, MAppEpid
“Good kid, mad system”: the role for health in reforming justice for vulnerable communities
Let’s invest in better services for high-risk communities rather than in more prisons
Anthea S Krieg BM BS, MPH · Jillian A Guthrie BA, MAppEpidemiol, PhD · Michael Herbert Levy MB BS, MPH, FAFPHM · Leonie Segal BEcon(Hons), MEcon, PhD
Economic evaluation of Indigenous health worker management of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes in north Queensland
Other approaches to improving chronic disease outcomes in this very unwell population need to be explored
Leonie Segal PhD, MEcon, BEcon(Hons) · Ha Nguyen PhD · Barbara Schmidt MBA, BBus(Health Admin), GradCertRes · Mark Wenitong MB BS · Robyn A McDermott MPH, PhD, FAFPHM
Effectiveness of the Koorliny Moort out-of-hospital health care program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Western Australia
Health outcomes can be improved for Aboriginal children by engaging their families in their health care
Rebecca Cresp MB BS, FRACP, MPHTM · Karen Clarke BN, PGCertPaed · Kimberley E McAuley BSc, MSc, PhD · Daniel McAullay BSc, MAE, PhD · Carolyn A Moylan BA(Hons), BA · Sue Peter SRN, RSCN, MSc · Gervase Ml Chaney MB BS, FRACP · Angus Cook MB ChB, PhD · Karen M Edmond PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM
Comparing colorectal cancer treatment and survival for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in New South Wales
NSW Aboriginal people with colorectal cancer had lower 5-year survival rates than non-Aboriginal people
Kristie Weir BSc · Rajah Supramaniam BSc, MPH(Hons) · Alison Gibberd MStat · Anthony Dillon PhD · Bruce K Armstrong DPhil, FRACP, FAFPHM · Dianne L O'Connell BMaths(Hons), PhD
Factors contributing to frequent attendance to the emergency department of a remote Northern Territory hospital
The study confirms previous international research documenting the association between frequent attendance and homelessness
Simon Quilty FRACP, MPhilPH, MB BS · Geordan Shannon BMed, MPH, DRANZCOG · Anthony Yao MB BS, BMedSc(Hons) · William Sargent MB ChB, FACEM, FCEM(UK) · Michael F McVeigh MB BS
Therapeutic drug safety for Indigenous Australians: how do we close the gap?
Lack of data on drug safety is concerning
Tilenka Thynne MB BS, FRACP · Genevieve M Gabb MB BS(Hons), FRACP, GradDipClinEpi
Indigenous health expenditure deficits obscured in Closing the Gap reports
Government expenditure is not commensurate with the substantially greater and more complex health needs of Indigenous Australians
Katrina A Alford BA, BEd, PhD
