Original articles (peer reviewed)

• Community stores influence the health of Aboriginal people living in the Fitzroy Valley region of the Kimberley
  19 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Nutrition  Western Australia  

Reviews

• No articles available.

Brief reports

• No articles available.

Current topics

• Roadmap to close the gap for vision report launched
  12 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Eye health  Research  
• National standards and registration for Indigenous Health Practitioners
  7 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Policies  Workforce  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Elder from Crocodile Islands named Senior Australian of the Year
  30 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Environment  Caring for country  Older people  
• New resources for tackling Indigenous chronic disease and smoking
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Health promotion  Nutrition  Physical activity  Tobacco use  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  

Journal articles (published elsewhere)

• Indigenous beliefs about biomedical and bush medicine treatment efficacy for Indigenous cancer patients: a review of the literature
  21 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Medicine  Traditional medicine  Cancer  Health services  Workforce  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Aboriginal birth cohort study–wave 3 selected results: the good news and the bad news
  21 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Oral health  Nutrition  Adolescents  Overweight and obesity  Northern Territory  
• National trends in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking and quitting, 1994–2008
  21 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Protective and risk factors  Tobacco use  
• Exposing the hidden curriculum influencing medical education on the health of Indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand: The role of the Critical Reflection Tool
  21 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Health  Health services  Education  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Social gradients in the health of Indigenous Australians
  14 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Health  Social determinants  
• Suboptimal anti-epilepsy drug use is common among Indigenous patients with seizures presenting to the emergency department
  14 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Medicine  Chronic conditions  Injury  Hospitalisation  Remote  Rural  Protective and risk factors  Alcohol use  Queensland  
• An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Yaegl Aboriginal community in northern New South Wales, Australia
  14 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Traditional medicine  Research  New South Wales  
• Pedagogy shaped by culture: teaching narrative approaches to Australian Aboriginal health workers
  14 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Improvement of maternal Aboriginality in NSW birth data
  7 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Births  Population  Women  Research  New South Wales  
• Exploring the disparity in tobacco use between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
  7 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Medicine  Health promotion  Tobacco use  
• Epidemic incarceration and justice reinvestment it’s time for change
  7 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  International  Justice  Adolescents  Offender health  Western Australia  
• Inside-out approaches to promoting Australian Aboriginal wellbeing: evidence from a decade of community-based participatory research
  7 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Social and emotional wellbeing  Remote  Rural  Research  Social determinants  Queensland  
• Blunting the legacy of alcohol abuse in Western Australia
  29 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Remote  Rural  Pregnancy  Protective and risk factors  Alcohol use  Western Australia  
• Racism in contemporary Australian nursing
  29 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Ethics  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Bronchiectasis is associated with Human T-Lymphotropic Virus 1 infection in an Indigenous Australian population
  29 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Infectious conditions  Respiratory health  International  Remote  Northern Territory  
• Income management in the context of family violence
  29 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Family violence  Child protection  Justice  Policies  
• Mental health, criminal justice and culture: some ways forward?
  22 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Deaths  Social and emotional wellbeing  Offender health  Protective and risk factors  Substance use  
• Promoting fit bodies, healthy eating and physical activity among Indigenous Australian men: a study protocol
  22 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Health  Nutrition  Men  Protective and risk factors  Physical activity  Research  Social determinants  
• Listening to Indigenous health workers: helping to explain the disconnect between policy and practice in oral health role development in remote Australia
  22 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Oral health  Policies  Remote  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome in a sample of Indigenous women in Darwin, Australia
  22 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Diabetes  Sexual health  Urban  Women  Pregnancy  Protective and risk factors  Overweight and obesity  Northern Territory  
• The Koori kook up at Bellambi Neighbourhood Centre
  15 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Health promotion  Nutrition  Protective and risk factors  New South Wales  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Culture versus gender how the mainstream criminal court system is still getting it wrong
  15 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Family violence  Justice  Offender health  Victoria  
• Infective endocarditis and rheumatic heart disease in the north of Australia
  15 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cardiovascular health  Infectious conditions  Remote  Rural  Protective and risk factors  Northern Territory  Queensland  
• The elephant in the room: self-determination
  15 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Health  Health services  International  Justice  Policies  
• Aboriginal identification in Hunter New England infants
  8 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Immunisation  Infants and young children  Protective and risk factors  New South Wales  
• Lung health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders: breathing easy is not so easy
  8 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Health services  Respiratory health  Health promotion  Policies  Queensland  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• A qualitative evaluation of the views of community workers on the dental health education material available
  8 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Oral health  Health promotion  New South Wales  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Attention to four key principles can promote health outcomes from desert Aboriginal land management
  8 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Caring for country  Environmental health  Social and emotional wellbeing  Remote  
• Speaking up to the silences Victorian Koori courts and the complexities of Indigenous family violence
  1 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Family violence  Justice  Family  Women  Victoria  
• Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis and opportunistic trachoma screening in an Indigenous community in the Northern Territory, 2011
  1 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Eye health  Infectious conditions  Kidney health  Health promotion  Adolescents  Infants and young children  Remote  Protective and risk factors  Northern Territory  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Can cultural differences affect access of families to health care?
  1 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Cultural ways  Traditional medicine  Health services  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Socioeconomic inequality profiles in physical and developmental health from 0–7 years: Australian National Study
  1 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Health measurement  Growth  Infants and young children  Social determinants  
• Cooking skills are important competencies for promoting healthy eating in an urban Indigenous health service
  25 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Health services  Nutrition  Family  Urban  Protective and risk factors  Queensland  
• Challenges in the diagnosis and management of Lynch Syndrome in an Indigenous family living in a remote West Australian community
  25 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cancer  Health services  Remote  Protective and risk factors  Western Australia  
• Finding my ground in public health research: lessons from my Grandmother’s kitchen
  25 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Births  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  Women  Research  Victoria  
• Closing the gap and Indigenous housing
  25 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Environmental health  Housing  Policies  Remote  Social determinants  
• Glaucoma in Indigenous Australians [letter]
  18 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Eye health  Research  
• Reaching those with the greatest need: how Australian primary health care service managers, practitioners and funders understand and respond to health inequity
  18 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Health services  Northern Territory  South Australia  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Oral health of pre-school children in rural and remote Western Australia
  18 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Oral health  Infants and young children  Remote  Rural  Western Australia  
• Archives of sorrow: an exploration of Australia’s stolen generations and their journey into the past
  18 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Social and emotional wellbeing  Research  
• Inpatient hospital use in the first year after release from prison: a Western Australian population-based record linkage study
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Health  Hospitalisation  Offender health  Western Australia  
• Social work with Aboriginal clients: perspectives on educational preparation and practice
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Research  Education  Social issues  Workforce  
• Invasive pneumococcal disease in New South Wales, Australia: reporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status improves epidemiology: surveillance report
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Immunisation  Respiratory health  Hospitalisation  New South Wales  
• Total population investigation of dental hospitalizations in Indigenous children under five years in Western Australia using linked data
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Oral health  Hospitalisation  Infants and young children  Research  Western Australia  

Reports and publications (published elsewhere)

• Engaging Indigenous students through school-based health education
  13 June, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Cultural ways  Health promotion  Adolescents  
• Report of National Advisory Council on Dental Health
  14 March, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Oral health  
• Capacity development for Indigenous service delivery
  29 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Policies  Remote  Rural  Services  
• “It is the story of all of us”: learning from Aboriginal communities about supporting family connection
  29 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Child protection  Infants and young children  Victoria  
• Chronic condition management strategies in Aboriginal communities: final report 2011
  29 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cancer  Cardiovascular health  Chronic conditions  Diabetes  Kidney health  Physical activity  South Australia  
• Role and expectations of rural-remote and Indigenous local government
  29 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Environmental health  Remote  Rural  Research  Northern Territory  Queensland  Western Australia  
• Shadow report 2012: on Australian governments’ progress towards closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
  22 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Deaths  Health services  Policies  
• Sad news, sorry business: guidelines for caring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through death and dying
  22 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Palliative care  Queensland  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Healthy lifestyle programs for physical activity and nutrition
  22 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Chronic conditions  Diabetes  Physical activity  
• Closing the gap – Prime Minister’s report 2012
  15 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Housing  Child protection  Chronic conditions  Infants and young children  Education  
• COAG reform agenda: report on progress 2011
  13 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Housing  Health  Policies  Services  
• Government response to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs report: Doing time – time for doing: Indigenous youth in the criminal justice system
  13 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Justice  Adolescents  Offender health  
• Child protection Australia 2010-11
  13 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Family violence  Child protection  Injury  Infants and young children  
• Caring for people who sniff petrol or other volatile substances: a quick reference guide for health workers
  6 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Volatile substance use  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Primary clinical care manual: 7th edition
  6 February, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Injury  Kidney health  Sexual health  Social and emotional wellbeing  Remote  Rural  Alcohol use  Queensland  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Alcohol guidelines to reduce the lifetime health risks from drinking alcohol
  30 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Health  Alcohol use  South Australia  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers  
• Legally invisible – how Australian laws impede stewardship and governance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
  23 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Policies  
• 2010-11 report on the operation of the Aged Care Act 1997
  23 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Policies  Older people  Services  
• Native title report 2011
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Justice  Policies  
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010 report (NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, NT)
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Environmental health  Health  Health services  Social and emotional wellbeing  Hospitalisation  Social determinants  New South Wales  Northern Territory  Queensland  South Australia  Victoria  Western Australia  
• Self build: alternative housing procurement in remote Indigenous communities
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Housing  Northern Territory  Queensland  Western Australia  
• Social justice report 2011
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Cultural ways  Environmental health  Family violence  Social and emotional wellbeing  Justice  Policies  

Resources (published elsewhere)

• Boat builders
  9 April, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Social and emotional wellbeing  Health promotion  Adolescents  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Queensland  
• Ngarra 2011 booklet
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Sexual health  Illicit drug use  
• Burndap nahlinggu-dji: welcome back
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Offender health  Women  Victoria  

Conference presentations (published elsewhere)

• 15th Annual NT Chronic Disease Conference
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cancer  Cardiovascular health  Diabetes  Social and emotional wellbeing  

Theses (published elsewhere)

• Cultures of governance and the governance of culture: Indigenous Australians and the state
  16 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Policies  Research  
• Epidemiological perspectives of acute lower respiratory infections in young Western Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Respiratory health  Infants and young children  Research  Western Australia  

Websites

• Hero rewards
  16 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Closing the gap  Health  Services  
• Deadly tots: love yarn sing read play
  10 January, 2012 | Posted in Vol 12 No 1, January 2012 – March 2012  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  Infants and young children  Education  New South Wales