Original articles (peer reviewed)

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Reviews (peer reviewed)

• No articles available.

Brief reports

• Ord Valley Aboriginal Health Service’s fetal alcohol spectrum disorders program: Big steps, solid outcome
  4 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health promotion  Pregnancy  Alcohol use  

Current topics

• Indigenous social worker from WA acknowledged for remarkable contributions
  14 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Family violence  Alcohol use  Social issues  Western Australia  
• Take the HealthBulletin survey to win a camera, iPod or voucher
  9 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  
• More Indigenous Australians accessing targeted health services
  26 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health services  Social and emotional wellbeing  Policies  Substance use  
• HealthInfoNet receives national accolades
  24 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Health  Research  Education  
• 2011 Deadly Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health services  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  

Journal articles

• Kanyininpa (holding): a way of nurturing children in Aboriginal Australia
  21 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Child protection  Infants and young children  Northern Territory  South Australia  Western Australia  
• Distribution and associations of intraocular pressure in Indigenous Australians within central Australia: the Central Australian Ocular Health Study
  21 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Eye health  Remote  Rural  
• Persistence of acute rheumatic fever in a tertiary children’s hospital
  21 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cardiovascular health  Infectious conditions  Hospitalisation  Infants and young children  Urban  New South Wales  
• Beyond the rhetoric: how can non-government organisations contribute to reducing health disparities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
  21 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Cardiovascular health  Social issues  Western Australia  
• The best bang for our buck: recommendations for the provision of training for tobacco action workers and Indigenous health workers
  14 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Tobacco use  Indigenous health workers  
• Integrating treatment for mental and physical disorders and substance misuse in Indigenous primary care settings
  14 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health services  Social and emotional wellbeing  Remote  Rural  Substance use  Northern Territory  Workforce  
• Towards GET 2020: trachoma in the Northern Territory 2010
  14 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Eye health  Infectious conditions  Infants and young children  Remote  Rural  Northern Territory  
• Local regeneration in social work with Indigenous peoples: the Kimberley across 40 years
  14 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  Western Australia  
• Implementing the Indigenous Diabetic Foot Project in the lower gulf of Australia
  7 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Diabetes  Health measurement  Queensland  Indigenous health workers  
• Indigenous health and community services employment in remote Northern Territory: a baseline examination of 2006 and 2001 census data
  7 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health services  Remote  Education  Northern Territory  Employment  Indigenous health workers  
• Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s access to medicines – the QUMAX program [editorial]
  7 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Medicine  Health services  
• Infection with Human T Lymphotropic Virus 1 is associated with bronchiectasis among Indigenous Australians
  7 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Infectious conditions  Respiratory health  
• Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal differentials in 2-year outcomes following non-fatal first-ever acute MI persist after adjustment for comorbidity
  30 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cardiovascular health  Protective and risk factors  Western Australia  
• Cervical cancer in Indigenous women: the case of Australia
  30 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Deaths  Cancer  Sexual health  Women  
• Higher HCV antibody prevalence among Indigenous clients of needle and syringe programs
  30 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Hepatitis C  HIV/AIDS  Offender health  Protective and risk factors  Illicit drug use  
• Having a yarn about smoking: using action research to develop a ‘no smoking’ policy within an Aboriginal Health Organisation
  30 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Policies  Tobacco use  Research  Victoria  
• Owning solutions: a collaborative model to improve quality in hospital care for Aboriginal Australians
  23 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Hospitalisation  Indigenous health workers  
• Responding to racism: insights on how racism can damage health from an urban study of Australian Aboriginal people
  23 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health  Social and emotional wellbeing  Urban  South Australia  
• Diabetes prevalence and determinants in Indigenous Australian populations: a systematic review
  23 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Diabetes  Urban  Research  Social determinants  
• Jumping the hurdles for smoking cessation in pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia
  23 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Women  Pregnancy  Tobacco use  
• Agency and structure in the life-world of Aboriginal children in Central Australia
  16 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Physical environment  Infants and young children  Remote  Rural  South Australia  
• Suicide in Indigenous people in Queensland, Australia: trends and methods, 1994–2007
  16 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Deaths  Social and emotional wellbeing  Research  Queensland  
• Trachoma
  16 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Eye health  Infectious conditions  Protective and risk factors  
• Plasma cell infiltrates and renal allograft outcomes in Indigenous and non-indigenous people of the Northern Territory of Australia
  16 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Kidney health  Northern Territory  
• Incidence of diabetic retinopathy in indigenous Australians within central Australia: the central Australian ocular health study
  9 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Diabetes  Eye health  Research  Northern Territory  
• Mibbinbah and spirit healing: fostering safe, friendly spaces for Indigenous males in Australia
  9 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  Men  
• Mental health and Indigenous university students
  9 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Social and emotional wellbeing  Adolescents  Education  
• Indigenous aged care service use and need for assistance: how well is policy matching need?
  9 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Disability  Health services  Policies  Older people  
• Home to own: potential for Indigenous housing by Indigenous people
  2 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Environmental health  Housing  Policies  Remote  Rural  Northern Territory  
• A study of head and neck cancer treatment and survival among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Queensland, Australia, 1998 to 2004
  2 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Deaths  Cancer  Queensland  
• Restrictions reap rewards
  2 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Remote  Rural  Alcohol use  Social issues  Western Australia  
• How can country, spirituality, music and arts contribute to Indigenous mental health and wellbeing?
  2 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Caring for country  Social and emotional wellbeing  
• Collaborating to make Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people’s sexual and reproductive health ‘everybody’s business’
  26 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Sexual health  Adolescents  Queensland  
• Psychosis and its correlates in a remote Indigenous population
  26 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Social and emotional wellbeing  Remote  Rural  Queensland  
• A pilot study of Aboriginal health promotion from an ecological perspective
  26 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health promotion  Nutrition  Physical activity  Victoria  
• Pertussis outbreak in Central Australia 2010
  26 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Infectious conditions  Respiratory health  Infants and young children  Northern Territory  
• Cardiovascular risk among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal smoking male prisoners: inequalities compared to the wider community
  19 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cardiovascular health  Men  Offender health  Protective and risk factors  Tobacco use  Research  
• Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis in the Northern Territory of Australia: a review of 16 years data and comparison with the literature
  19 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Kidney health  Respiratory health  Skin infections  Remote  Rural  Northern Territory  
• A multilevel analysis on the relationship between neighbourhood poverty and public hospital utilization: is the high Indigenous morbidity avoidable?
  19 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Hospitalisation  Social determinants  Social issues  
• The detection and management of pelvic inflammatory disease in Aboriginal women in Central Australia: challenges of a remote high prevalence setting
  19 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Sexual health  Remote  Women  Northern Territory  
• Estimating cancer incidence in Indigenous Australians
  12 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cancer  Respiratory health  Tobacco use  
• Performative evaluation and social return on investment: potential in innovative health promotion interventions
  12 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health services  Sexual health  Social and emotional wellbeing  Health promotion  Education  
• Cultural matter in the development of an interactive multimedia self-paced educational health program for Aboriginal health workers
  12 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Education  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  
• Slipped capital femoral epiphysis: rising rates with obesity and Aboriginality in South Australia
  12 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Growth  Adolescents  Overweight and obesity  South Australia  
• If the land’s sick, we’re sick: the impact of prolonged drought on the social and emotional well-being of Aboriginal communities in rural New South Wales
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Caring for country  Social and emotional wellbeing  Remote  Rural  New South Wales  
• Chronic disease and hospitalisation for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Western Australians
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Infectious conditions  Hospitalisation  Western Australia  
• Broken glass as an injury hazard in an Indigenous community
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Physical environment  Injury  Health promotion  Queensland  
• Human papillomavirus prevalence amongst Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian women prior to a national HPV vaccination program
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cancer  Sexual health  Women  

Reports and publications

• Ear and hearing health of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory
  21 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Ear health  Infants and young children  
• The West Australian Indigenous storybook : celebrating and sharing good news stories: the Kimberley and Pilbara edition
  12 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Environmental health  Infectious conditions  Social and emotional wellbeing  Health promotion  Nutrition  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Tobacco use  Western Australia  
• Implementation of the national partnership agreement on remote Indigenous housing in the Northern Territory
  16 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Housing  Remote  Northern Territory  
• The cost to close the gap for vision
  14 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Eye health  Health services  Research  
• Chronic kidney disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2011
  9 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Kidney health  
• Stronger futures in the Northern Territory: report on consultations
  26 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Environmental health  Health services  Injury  Policies  Alcohol use  Social issues  Northern Territory  
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services report 2009–10: OATSIH Services Reporting-key results
  26 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health services  Social and emotional wellbeing  Policies  Substance use  
• The roadmap to close the gap for vision (summary report)
  10 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Eye health  Policies  
• Australian Government expenditure by state and territory, 2010 Indigenous expenditure report supplement
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Environmental health  Infants and young children  

Resources

• “Deadly Teeth” tip cards for families [Eat well, Drink well, Clean well]
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Oral health  Infants and young children  Victoria  
• Deadly tots: love yarn sing read play
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Infants and young children  New South Wales  

Conference presentations

• 2011 PHC Research Conference
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Health  Health services  Research  

Theses

• The sorry people: non-indigenous Australians and emotional geographies of co-presence
  21 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  
• Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines: the attitudes and intentions of Australian health providers and parents from three diverse cultural groups toward HPV vaccination of pre-adolescent children
  5 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cancer  Immunisation  Sexual health  Adolescents  Infants and young children  Women  Research  Victoria  
• Where the dreaming changed shape: the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adult health check in a remote Aboriginal community
  16 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Health services  Remote  Research  Northern Territory  
• Polycystic ovary syndrome and associated metabolic features in Indigenous women in the Northern Territory
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Diabetes  Women  Overweight and obesity  Research  Northern Territory  

Websites

• Byalawa: a learning and teaching resource for working with Indigenous patients and clients
  5 December, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Cultural ways  Education  Workforce  
• Indigenous scholarships
  14 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Education  
• Do something real
  7 November, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Health  Workforce  Employment  
• Health heroes
  3 October, 2011 | Posted in Vol 11 No 4, October 2011 – December 2011  Closing the gap  Young adults  Indigenous health workers