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Current topics

• Indigenous cancer centre of excellence unveiled
  2 April, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cancer  
• The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet pledges commitment to close the gap
  21 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  
• $100 million boost for Aboriginal youth in NT
  18 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Substance use  
• New Trans-Tasman funding in search for rheumatic heart disease vaccine
  18 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cardiovascular health  
• Legal recognition of Indigenous status
  13 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Policies  

Journal articles

• Responding to the World Report on Disability in Australia: lessons from collaboration in an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school
  20 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Disability  Chronic conditions  Adolescents  Infants and young children  Urban  Queensland  
• Chronic condition management and self-management in Aboriginal communities in South Australia: outcomes of a longitudinal study
  20 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cardiovascular health  Chronic conditions  Diabetes  Respiratory health  South Australia  
• The psychometric equivalence of the Personal Wellbeing Index School-Children for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian adolescents
  20 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Health measurement  Social and emotional wellbeing  Adolescents  
• Disentangling the impacts of geography and Aboriginality on serious road transport injuries in New South Wales
  20 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Deaths  Disability  Injury  Remote  Rural  Road safety  New South Wales  
• Focus on systemic lupus erythematosus in Indigenous Australians: toward a better understanding of autoimmune diseases
  13 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Chronic conditions  Kidney health  
• Near-vision impairment and unresolved vision problems in Indigenous Australian adults
  13 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Eye health  Research  
• Use of health services for sexually transmitted and blood-borne viral infections by young Aboriginal people in New South Wales
  13 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Hepatitis  Hepatitis C  HIV/AIDS  Sexual health  Adolescents  Young adults  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  New South Wales  
• Gender, indigeneity, and the criminal courts: a narrative exploration of women’s sentencing in Western Australia
  13 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Justice  Offender health  Women  Social issues  Western Australia  
• Build it and they will come: outcomes from a successful cardiac rehabilitation program at an Aboriginal Medical Service
  6 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cardiovascular health  Health services  Health promotion  Urban  Western Australia  Indigenous health workers  
• Building relationships with Aboriginal people: a cultural mapping toolbox
  6 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cultural ways  Rural  Services  New South Wales  
• ‘Talk, talk, cry, laugh’: learning, healing and building an Aboriginal workforce to address family violence
  6 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Family violence  Child protection  Education  New South Wales  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  
• Developing an exploratory framework linking Australian Aboriginal peoples’ connection to country and concepts of wellbeing
  27 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Caring for country  Social and emotional wellbeing  Victoria  
• Decomposing the Indigenous life expectancy gap by risk factors: a life table analysis
  27 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Deaths  Protective and risk factors  Social determinants  Northern Territory  
• The experience of lung cancer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and what it means for policy, service planning and delivery
  27 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Cancer  Respiratory health  Policies  Tobacco use  Social issues  
• What constitutes ‘support’ for the role of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child health workforce?
  27 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Infants and young children  Queensland  Employment  Indigenous health workers  
• Incidence of visual impairment due to cataract, diabetic retinopathy and trachoma in Indigenous Australians within Central Australia: the Central Australian Ocular Health Study
  20 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Eye health  Remote  Rural  Northern Territory  
• Childhood disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: a literature review
  20 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Disability  Ear health  Health services  Infants and young children  Indigenous health workers  
• Lifetime risk of developing coronary heart disease in Aboriginal Australians: a cohort study
  20 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cardiovascular health  Men  Remote  Rural  Women  Protective and risk factors  Research  Northern Territory  
• The health and well-being of Indigenous drug and alcohol workers: results from a national Australian survey
  20 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Social and emotional wellbeing  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Volatile substance use  Services  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  
• Economic implications of poor access to antenatal care in rural and remote Western Australian Aboriginal communities: an individual sampling model of pregnancy
  13 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Births  Infants and young children  Remote  Rural  Women  Pregnancy  Western Australia  
• Creating change: building the capacity of the medical workforce in Aboriginal health
  13 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Medicine  Western Australia  Workforce  
• Influenza control can be achieved in a custodial setting: Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and 2011 in an Australian prison
  13 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Infectious conditions  Disease control  Respiratory health  Offender health  Australian Capital Territory  
• “From your own thinking you can’t help us”: intercultural collaboration to address inequities in services for Indigenous Australians in response to the World Report on Disability
  13 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cultural ways  Disability  Ear health  Remote  Rural  Northern Territory  
• The roadmap to close the gap for vision
  6 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Eye health  Health services  Policies  Remote  Rural  Victoria  
• The subjective wellbeing of Indigenous Australian adolescents: validating the personal wellbeing index-school children
  6 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Social and emotional wellbeing  Adolescents  
• Training and tailored outreach support to improve alcohol screening and brief intervention in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
  6 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Health services  Health promotion  Rural  Urban  Alcohol use  New South Wales  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  
• Identifying multi-level culturally appropriate smoking cessation strategies for Aboriginal health staff: a concept mapping approach
  6 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Health promotion  Tobacco use  South Australia  Indigenous health workers  
• Assessing the influence of “standard” and “culturally specific” risk factors on the prevalence and frequency of offending: the case of Indigenous Australians
  30 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cultural ways  Family violence  Social and emotional wellbeing  Offender health  Protective and risk factors  Substance use  Social determinants  
• Improving chronic lung disease management in rural and remote Australia: the Breathe Easy Walk Easy program
  30 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Respiratory health  Health promotion  Remote  Rural  New South Wales  Northern Territory  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  
• Surface-specific efficacy of fluoride varnish in caries prevention in the primary dentition: results of a community randomized clinical trial
  30 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Oral health  Infants and young children  Remote  Rural  Northern Territory  
• Building better systems of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: findings from the kanyini health systems assessment
  30 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Cultural ways  Chronic conditions  Health services  Policies  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  
• Renal biopsy findings among Indigenous Australians: a nationwide review
  23 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Diabetes  Kidney health  Remote  Rural  Urban  
• The current state of Indigenous and Aboriginal women with diabetes in pregnancy: a systematic review
  23 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Births  Diabetes  International  Infants and young children  Women  Pregnancy  
• Centrelink: an innovative urban intervention for improving adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander access to vaccination
  23 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Immunisation  Infectious conditions  Respiratory health  Urban  Queensland  
• Bronchoscopy contributes to the clinical management of Indigenous children newly diagnosed with Bronchiectasis
  23 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Infectious conditions  Respiratory health  Infants and young children  Northern Territory  
• Scratching the itch: new tools to advance understanding of scabies
  16 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Environmental health  Infectious conditions  Skin infections  Queensland  
• Growth and empowerment for Indigenous Australians in substance abuse treatment
  16 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  Men  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Volatile substance use  
• Early life influences on cardio-metabolic disease risk in aboriginal populations – what is the evidence? A systematic review of longitudinal and case–control studies
  16 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Births  Cardiovascular health  Diabetes  Kidney health  International  Infants and young children  Women  Pregnancy  Protective and risk factors  
• We can see the gap: regional eye health coordination for Indigenous Australians
  16 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Diabetes  Eye health  Health services  Remote  Rural  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  
• Menopause and the influence of culture: another gap for Indigenous Australian women?
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cultural ways  Sexual health  International  Women  
• Epidemiology of chlamydia and gonorrhoea among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, 2000–2009
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Infectious conditions  Sexual health  Remote  Rural  Urban  
• Why optometry must work from urban and regional Aboriginal health services
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Eye health  Health services  Remote  Rural  Urban  Indigenous health workers  
• Relationship between alcohol mangement plans and injury reductions in a remote Australian community
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Injury  Remote  Alcohol use  New South Wales  

Reports and publications

• Justice & community safety in Western Australia: a call for efficient investment in effective outcomes
  25 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Social and emotional wellbeing  Adolescents  Offender health  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Western Australia  
• The Alcohol Action in Rural Communities (AARC) project
  18 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Injury  Alcohol use  New South Wales  
• Bridges and barriers: addressing Indigenous incarceration and health: revised edition
  18 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Hepatitis  Injury  Social and emotional wellbeing  Adolescents  Offender health  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  
• Strategies to minimise the incidence of suicide and suicidal behaviour
  11 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Cultural ways  Deaths  Injury  Social and emotional wellbeing  
• Healthy for life: results for July 2007-June 2011
  6 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Cardiovascular health  Chronic conditions  Diabetes  Infants and young children  Women  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Tobacco use  Workforce  Indigenous health workers  
• Shadow report 2013: on Australian governments’ progress towards closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
  6 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Deaths  Social and emotional wellbeing  Policies  Infants and young children  Women  Alcohol use  Tobacco use  Services  
• Responding to child sexual assault in Aboriginal communities
  4 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Child protection  Policies  Adolescents  Infants and young children  Social determinants  New South Wales  
• Strategies and practices for promoting the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  4 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Cultural ways  Social and emotional wellbeing  
• The impact of Indigenous community sports programs: the case of surfing: research report
  25 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Social and emotional wellbeing  Physical activity  Research  
• Provided there’s transport: transport as a barrier to accessing health care in NSW
  25 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Remote  Rural  Social issues  New South Wales  
• Starting to smoke: experiences of Indigenous youth
  25 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Alcohol use  Tobacco use  Social issues  Northern Territory  
• An economic analysis for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander offenders: prison vs residential treatment
  18 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Hepatitis C  Social and emotional wellbeing  Offender health  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Volatile substance use  
• Traditional Healers of the Central Desert: Ngangkari
  18 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Traditional medicine  Remote  Rural  Women  
• ‘Not one size fits all’: understanding the social & emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal children
  13 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cultural ways  Child protection  Social and emotional wellbeing  Infants and young children  Social issues  
• Closing the gap: Prime Minister’s report 2013
  6 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Housing  Child protection  Chronic conditions  Policies  Infants and young children  Education  
• Coordinator General for Remote Indigenous Services six monthly report April 2012 to September 2012
  4 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Housing  Policies  Remote  Rural  Alcohol use  Social determinants  
• Survey analysis for Indigenous policy in Australia: social science perspectives
  21 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Closing the gap  Cultural ways  Housing  Health  Social and emotional wellbeing  Justice  Policies  Substance use  Education  Social issues  
• Highlighting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research at The Kirby Institute
  21 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Eye health  Hepatitis  HIV/AIDS  Sexual health  Social and emotional wellbeing  Adolescents  Men  Offender health  Remote  Rural  Women  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Research  
• Treating us right: a summary report describing and evaluating Wadja’s new model of care for Aboriginal children and families at the Royal Children’s Hospital
  14 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Hospitalisation  Infants and young children  Victoria  Indigenous health workers  
• A longitudinal study of influences on alcohol consumption and related harm in Central Australia: with a particular emphasis on the role of price
  14 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Remote  Rural  Alcohol use  Research  Western Australia  
• Women’s cancers and cancer screening in the Northern Territory
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Cancer  Women  Northern Territory  
• Recognition and respect: mental health carers report 2012
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Social and emotional wellbeing  Services  Social issues  
• A contributing life: the 2012 national report card on mental health and suicide prevention
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Social and emotional wellbeing  Policies  Services  
• Selecting interventions for food security in remote Indigenous communities
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Nutrition  Remote  Rural  

Resources

• The Line – respect each other [online comics]
  11 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Social and emotional wellbeing  Health promotion  Adolescents  Social issues  
• The Fitzroy Valley cook book: volume one (the wet season)
  18 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Health promotion  Nutrition  Western Australia  
• Medicine man
  13 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Family violence  Health promotion  Young adults  Alcohol use  Illicit drug use  Northern Territory  
• Lunch right for Aboriginal families
  4 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Nutrition  Infants and young children  Western Australia  
• Infectious personalities: reducing hepatitis and HIV discrimination in healthcare
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Hepatitis  HIV/AIDS  Health promotion  Queensland  
• Waninjawarnu
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Health promotion  Infants and young children  Pregnancy  Tobacco use  

Conference presentations

• Congress Lowitja 2012
  13 February, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Policies  Research  

Theses

• Collaborating to improve access to primary health care for vulnerable populations
  11 March, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Health services  Infants and young children  Older people  Remote  Rural  
• Streptococci in an Aboriginal Australian community: is there a link between dogs and humans?
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Environmental health  Infectious other  Queensland  

Websites

• Look after kids ears
  7 January, 2013 | Posted in Vol 13 No 1, January 2013 – March 2013  Ear health