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Exploring factors impacting early childhood health among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communitiesThe impact of perinatal outcomes, maternal social and health outcomes and level of culturally secure service availability on the health outcomes of Western Australian Aboriginal infants and children
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Using theory to improve low back pain care in Australian Aboriginal primary care: A mixed method single cohort pilot studyLow back pain (LBP) care is frequently discordant with research evidence.
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Genetic Research and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AustraliansHuman genetic research promises to deliver a range of health benefits to the population. Here we consider how the different levels of Indigenous research...
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Suicide prevention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people: Fact Sheet 3This is the third fact sheet regarding the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project.
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CRE in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing (CREAHW)CREAHW is a program of intervention research focused on achieving sustainable change for the Aboriginal community & improving the lives of Aboriginal people.
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The Kids KimberleyThe aim of establishing a local presence is based upon an intention to be by invitation considered as part of the Kimberley group of organisations as well ...
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Cohort profile: The WAACHS Linked Data StudyDespite the volume of accumulating knowledge from prospective Aboriginal cohort studies, longitudinal data describing developmental trajectories in health and well-being is limited.
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Bold bid to end rheumatic heart diseaseSome of the nation’s leading medical researchers will converge on Darwin this week to step out a plan to wipe out rheumatic heart disease.
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Describing skin health and disease in urban-living Aboriginal children: co-design, development and feasibility testing of the Koolungar Moorditj Healthy Skin pilot projectIndigenous children in colonised nations experience high rates of health disparities linked to historical trauma resulting from displacement and dispossession, as well as ongoing systemic racism. Skin infections and their complications are one such health inequity, with the highest global burden described in remote-living Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (hereafter respectfully referred to as Aboriginal) children. Yet despite increasing urbanisation, little is known about the skin infection burden for urban-living Aboriginal children.
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“Ngany Kamam, I Speak Truly”: First-Person Accounts of Aboriginal Youth Voices in Mental Health Service ReformAboriginal young people are experts in their own experience and are best placed to identify the solutions to their mental health and wellbeing needs. Given that Aboriginal young people experience high rates of mental health concerns and are less likely than non-Indigenous young people to access mental health services, co-design and evaluation of appropriate mental health care is a priority.