Original articles (peer reviewed)

• No articles available.

Reviews (peer reviewed)

• No articles available.

Brief reports

• No articles available.

Current topics

• Budget 2013-14: information of relevance to Indigenous health
  15 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Health  Policies  
• Federal Government renews effort to close the gap in Indigenous health
  18 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Closing the gap  Policies  

Journal articles

• A nurse-managed kidney disease program in regional and remote Australia
  15 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Chronic conditions  Kidney health  Health promotion  Remote  Rural  Western Australia  
• Improving participation by Aboriginal children in blood lead screening services in Broken Hill, NSW
  15 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Disability  Infants and young children  Remote  Rural  New South Wales  
• Radiation treatment compliance in the Indigenous population: the pilot Northern Territory experience and future directions
  15 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cancer  Remote  Rural  Northern Territory  
• Creating successful anti-tobacco programs for Aboriginal communities
  15 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Tobacco use  New South Wales  
• Disabling chronic low back pain as an iatrogenic disorder: a qualitative study in Aboriginal Australians
  8 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Disability  Chronic conditions  Social and emotional wellbeing  Remote  Rural  Western Australia  
• Eye health promotion to improve awareness and prevent vision loss among Indigenous Australians
  8 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Eye health  Health promotion  
• Prevention and management of chronic disease in Aboriginal and Islander Community Controlled Health Services in Queensland: a quality improvement study assessing change in selected clinical performance indicators over time in a cohort of services
  8 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Chronic conditions  Health measurement  Health services  Queensland  
• Australian housing policy, misrecognition and Indigenous population mobility
  8 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Environmental health  Policies  Remote  Rural  Social issues  
• Indigenous perspectives on the desired attributes of medical graduates practising in remote communities: a northwest Queensland pilot study
  1 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Remote  Rural  Queensland  Workforce  
• Variability in disease burden and management of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in two regions of tropical Australia
  1 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cardiovascular health  Chronic conditions  Health services  Remote  Rural  Queensland  Western Australia  
• Improving eye care for Indigenous Australians in primary health care settings
  1 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Eye health  
• Promising practice in intensive family support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
  1 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Family violence  Social and emotional wellbeing  Infants and young children  
• Chronic hepatitis B: care delivery and patient knowledge in the Torres Strait region of Australia
  24 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Hepatitis  Remote  Rural  Queensland  
• Describing the growth and rapid weight gain of urban Australian Aboriginal infants
  24 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Infants and young children  Urban  Overweight and obesity  
• Stages of change, smoking behaviour and readiness to quit in a large sample of Indigenous Australians living in eight remote north Queensland communities
  24 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Remote  Rural  Tobacco use  Queensland  
• Yarning about health checks: barriers and enablers in an urban Aboriginal medical service
  24 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Urban  
• Characteristics of the community-level diet of Aboriginal people in remote northern Australia
  17 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Nutrition  Remote  Rural  Northern Territory  
• Indigenous access to cataract surgery: an assessment of the barriers and solutions within the Australian health system
  17 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Eye health  Health services  Hospitalisation  
• Exploring clinical predictors of cardiovascular disease in a central Australian Aboriginal cohort
  17 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cardiovascular health  Chronic conditions  Remote  Tobacco use  
• Community-based obesity prevention initiatives in aboriginal communities: the experience of the eat well be active community programs in South Australia
  17 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Health promotion  Nutrition  Overweight and obesity  Physical activity  South Australia  
• Risk of pneumonia in relation to body mass index in Australian Aboriginal people
  10 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Infectious conditions  Respiratory health  Overweight and obesity  Northern Territory  
• Accuracy of cough reporting by carers of Indigenous children
  8 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Respiratory health  Infants and young children  Northern Territory  
• Does Australia have the appropriate health reform agenda to close the gap in Indigenous health?
  8 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Closing the gap  Policies  
• Australian Diabetes Foot Network: practical guideline on the provision of footwear for people with diabetes
  8 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Chronic conditions  Diabetes  
• Overcoming the isolation experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Disability  
• Food stress in Adelaide: the relationship between low income and the affordability of healthy food
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Nutrition  Social determinants  South Australia  
• A threefold increase in gestational diabetes over two years: review of screening practices and pregnancy outcomes in Indigenous women of Cape York, Australia
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Births  Diabetes  Infants and young children  Pregnancy  Overweight and obesity  Queensland  
• Establishing the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the minimum standard for all forensic practice with Australian Indigenous peoples
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Social and emotional wellbeing  Offender health  

Reports and publications

• A report into the effectiveness of civil commitment in the treatment of alcoholism, and its suitability for implementation the Northern Territory
  20 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Policies  Alcohol use  Northern Territory  
• Literature review of the interplay between education, employment, health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote areas: working towards an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing framework
  6 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  Policies  Social issues  
• Bicultural practice in the Northern Territory children and families sector: practitioners’ reflections of working two-ways
  6 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Adolescents  Infants and young children  Northern Territory  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  
• Demonstration projects for improving sexual health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth: evaluation report
  29 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Hepatitis  HIV/AIDS  Sexual health  Adolescents  Research  
• Rheumatic heart disease and acute rheumatic fever in Australia: 1996-2011
  24 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cardiovascular health  Hospitalisation  Northern Territory  Queensland  Western Australia  
• Report on government services 2013: Indigenous compendium
  24 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Deaths  Disability  Environmental health  Cancer  Diabetes  Health services  Immunisation  Kidney health  Respiratory health  Social and emotional wellbeing  Hospitalisation  Justice  Policies  Offender health  Older people  Alcohol use  Tobacco use  Social issues  
• Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2010-11
  8 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Health services  Policies  
• The mental health and social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, families and communities
  8 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  Social issues  
• The positioning of Indigenous Australians as health care recipients
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Social determinants  
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2012 report (NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA)
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Births  Deaths  Disability  Environmental health  Cancer  Cardiovascular health  Diabetes  Ear health  Eye health  Health services  Immunisation  HIV/AIDS  Injury  Kidney health  Oral health  Respiratory health  Social and emotional wellbeing  Health promotion  Hospitalisation  Nutrition  Infants and young children  Offender health  Overweight and obesity  Physical activity  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Tobacco use  Social determinants  New South Wales  Queensland  South Australia  Victoria  Western Australia  Workforce  
• Geographic distribution of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease hospitalisations in Australia: 2007-08 to 2009-10
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Respiratory health  Hospitalisation  

Resources

• Asthma (short wind) in children
  20 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Respiratory health  Infants and young children  
• Yarning about Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
  13 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Sexual health  Women  
• HPV School Vaccination Program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young men and women
  13 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cancer  Immunisation  Infectious other  Sexual health  Health promotion  Young adults  Men  Women  
• Through young black eyes
  29 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Family violence  Child protection  Infants and young children  
• A unique & valued profession: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander health workers
  29 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Remote  Rural  Indigenous health workers  
• A lot of Aboriginal men sort of keep it to themselves
  15 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cardiovascular health  Diabetes  Sexual health  Men  
• Listen out for lung cancer
  8 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cancer  Respiratory health  Health promotion  New South Wales  
• First aid – deadly lingo
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Injury  Health promotion  
• Twenty years: twenty stories: works for me
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Disability  Policies  

Conference presentations

• No articles available.

Theses

• Munu gukooreree: Aboriginal children’s use and experience of space and place in Cherbourg
  6 May, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  Infants and young children  Queensland  
• A grounded theory of program transfer: how an Aboriginal empowerment initiative became “bigger than a program”
  22 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Social and emotional wellbeing  Research  
• Issues pertaining to recruitment and retention of rural and remote optometrists in Australia
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Eye health  Remote  Rural  Research  Workforce  
• The mental health nurses experience of providing care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients in acute inpatient units
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Health services  Social and emotional wellbeing  Workforce  

Websites

• Healthinsite
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 2, April 2013 – June 2013  Health