Original articles (peer reviewed)

• The central role of Aboriginal families in motivational counselling: family support and family ‘humbug’
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Social and emotional wellbeing  Family  

Reviews (peer reviewed)

• No articles available.

Brief reports

• No articles available.

Current topics

• First Congress Lowitja meeting
  31 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Research  
• Indigenous women get voice in Canberra
  15 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cultural ways  Policies  Women  Social determinants  
• The new Lowitja Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research launched
  3 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cultural ways  Ethics  Policies  
• Prime Minister Rudd delivers his second Closing the Gap statement to Parliament
  12 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Policies  
• Indigenous Health Workers gain national voice
  2 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Health services  Indigenous health workers  
• RHD Australia: a national approach to rheumatic heart disease prevention and management
  25 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cardiovascular health  Health services  Social issues  
• Ethics Council established for the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
  13 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Ethics  Policies  

Journal articles

• Indigeneity and the judicial decision to imprison: a study of Western Australia’s higher courts
  30 March, 2011 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Offender health  Western Australia  
• The interaction between respiratory viruses and pathogenic bacteria in the upper respiratory tract of asymptomatic Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children
  25 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Respiratory health  Infants and young children  
• Diabetic retinopathy and the major causes of vision loss in Aboriginals from remote Western Australia
  25 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Diabetes  Eye health  Remote  Western Australia  
• Exploring cross-sectional associations between common childhood illness, housing and social conditions in remote Australian Aboriginal communities
  25 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environmental health  Infectious conditions  Gastrointestinal  Respiratory health  Skin infections  Infants and young children  Remote  
• Prevalence and associations of cataract in Indigenous Australians within central Australia: the Central Australian Ocular Health Study
  25 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Eye health  Remote  
• Increased risk of hospitalization for acute lower respiratory tract infection among Australian Indigenous infants 5-23 months of age following pneumococcal vaccination: a cohort study
  18 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Infectious conditions  Respiratory health  Infants and young children  
• Meningitis and a febrile vomiting illness caused by Echovirus Type 4, Northern Territory, Australia
  16 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Infectious conditions  Northern Territory  
• Why do Indigenous students succeed at university?
  16 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Social and emotional wellbeing  Social issues  
• Six months with ICEE NSW Aboriginal eye care programme
  16 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Eye health  New South Wales  
• Australia’s Aboriginal population and mental health
  11 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  
• Single-dose azithromycin versus seven days of amoxycillin in the treatment of acute otitis media in Aboriginal children (AATAAC): a double blind, randomised controlled trial
  11 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Ear health  Infants and young children  
• Birthweight and natural deaths in a remote Australian Aboriginal community
  11 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Births  Deaths  Remote  
• “Echo Clusters” – Are they a unique phenomenon of Indigenous attempted and completed suicide?
  11 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Social and emotional wellbeing  Research  Social determinants  
• Maslow’s hierarchy and social and emotional wellbeing
  4 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Social and emotional wellbeing  Research  
• Assessing quality of diabetes care and its variation in Aboriginal community health centres in Australia
  4 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Diabetes  Services  
• Strong Souls: development and validation of a culturally appropriate tool for assessment of social and emotional well-being in Indigenous youth
  4 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Social and emotional wellbeing  Adolescents  Research  
• Psychological and cognitive assessment of Indigenous Australians
  4 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Social and emotional wellbeing  Research  
• Melioidosis in the Northern Territory
  25 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Infectious conditions  Respiratory health  Northern Territory  
• Are the processes recommended by the NHMRC for improving Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being implemented?: an assessment of CR Services across Western Australia
  25 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cardiovascular health  Western Australia  
• Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy-treated bone and joint infections in a tropical setting
  25 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Infectious conditions  
• Enhancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people’s resilience to blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections: findings from a community-based participatory research project
  25 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Health services  Sexual health  Research  
• ‘Radical hope’ and rain: climate change and the mental health of Indigenous residents of northern Australia
  25 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environmental health  Social and emotional wellbeing  
• Developing a web resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers
  25 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Indigenous health workers  
• Didgeridoo playing and singing to support asthma management in Aboriginal Australians
  18 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Respiratory health  
• An assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation for the Torres Strait Islands, Australia
  18 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environmental health  Remote  Queensland  
• Protecting our mob from the pandemic: deployment of an Indigenous-led specialist mobile flu clinic team in response to an emerging public health threat (H1N1 09 swine flu)
  18 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Infectious conditions  Disease control  Respiratory health  Services  
• Dental caries risk indicators among Australian Aboriginal young adults
  16 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Oral health  Young adults  
• Failure to vaccinate or failure of vaccine? Effectiveness of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine program in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory of Australia
  11 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Disease control  Respiratory health  Northern Territory  
• The influence of Indigenous food procurement techniques on populations of cyanobacteria in pre-European Australia: a potential small-scale water amelioration tool
  11 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environmental health  
• Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?
  11 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Respiratory health  Hospitalisation  Northern Territory  
• Risk indicators for severe impaired oral health among indigenous Australian young adults
  11 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Oral health  
• Glomerulonephritis and managing the risks of chronic renal disease
  4 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Kidney health  Infants and young children  
• Acute and chronic otitis media
  4 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Ear health  Infants and young children  
• Undernutrition and obesity in indigenous children: epidemiology, prevention, and treatment
  4 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Nutrition  Infants and young children  Overweight and obesity  
• Lower respiratory tract infections
  4 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Respiratory health  Infants and young children  
• Surgical management of gastroschisis in North Queensland from 1988 to 2007
  28 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Pregnancy  Queensland  
• Respiratory syncytial virus infections in Central Australia
  28 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Respiratory health  Infants and young children  Remote  Northern Territory  
• The new “Indigenous health” incentive payment: issues and challenges
  28 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Health services  Policies  
• Health, death, and Indigenous Australians in the coronial system
  21 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Deaths  Queensland  
• Improving coordination of care for Aboriginal people with mental health, alcohol and drug use problems: progress report on an ongoing collaborative action research project
  21 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Health services  Social and emotional wellbeing  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Research  
• Sleep, performance and behaviour in Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous children: an exploratory comparison
  21 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Social and emotional wellbeing  Infants and young children  Research  
• A regional initiative to reduce skin infections amongst Aboriginal children living in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia
  21 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environmental health  Infectious conditions  Infants and young children  Northern Territory  
• Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Indigenous populations
  18 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cardiovascular health  Infants and young children  
• History, law, and policy as a foundation for health care delivery for Australian Indigenous children
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Policies  Infants and young children  Services  
• Skin disorders, including pyoderma, scabies, and tinea infections
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environmental health  Infectious conditions  Infants and young children  
• Setting and meeting priorities in Indigenous health research in Australia and its application in the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Research  
• Evaluating the long-term effectiveness of the Maternity Emergency Care course in remote Australia
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Remote  Indigenous health workers  
• Racial disparities in health care – emergency department management of minor head injury
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Health services  Injury  
• Tobacco use and measuring nicotine dependence among urban Indigenous pregnant women
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Urban  Pregnancy  Tobacco use  

Reports and publications

• National Indigenous infrastructure guide
  31 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environmental health  Housing  Remote  
• Child protection Australia 2008-09
  29 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Child protection  Adolescents  Infants and young children  
• Health and homelands: good value for money
  24 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Caring for country  Physical environment  Policies  Remote  
• Performance audit of residential aged care for Indigenous Australians
  16 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Older people  Services  
• Some reflections on the quality of administrative data for Indigenous Australians: the importance of knowing something about the unknown(s)
  12 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Population  Offender health  New South Wales  
• Service activity reporting: Bringing Them Home and Link Up counsellors 2007-08
  25 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Social and emotional wellbeing  Services  
• Building bridges: learning from the experts: building bridges to implement successful life promotion and suicide prevention expertise across Aboriginal communities
  18 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Social and emotional wellbeing  Remote  Research  Queensland  
• We don’t shoot our wounded: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims of family violence access to justice and access to services in the ACT
  18 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Family violence  Justice  Services  Australian Capital Territory  
• Native title report 2009
  27 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Physical environment  Social issues  
• Social justice report 2009
  27 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cultural ways  Justice  Policies  Social issues  
• State of the world’s Indigenous peoples
  22 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  International  
• Closing the accountability gap: the first step towards better Indigenous health
  18 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Health services  Policies  
• East Arnhem regional healthy skin project: final report 2008
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environmental health  Disease control  Infants and young children  
• Everybody’s Business: Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Community Stores
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Health  Nutrition  Remote  Rural  Social issues  

Resources

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers: caring for our people
  25 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Disability  Older people  
• Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre Aboriginal knowledge and intellectual property protocol: community guide
  16 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cultural ways  Ethics  Research  
• Wanem morphine
  4 February, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cancer  Queensland  
• Recognising & treating skin conditions 2009 edition
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environmental health  Disease control  Skin infections  

Conference presentations

• Chronic Diseases Network Conference – Prevention is the best medicine
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cancer  Cardiovascular health  Diabetes  Kidney health  

Theses

• No articles available.

Websites

• The Closing the Gap Clearinghouse
  11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Environment  Health  Policies  Education