Topics: Births

Delivering improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child and maternal health

10 July, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Births  Children  Women  Pregnancy  Western Australia  

Hayward C, Scrine C, Venz T, Smith M (2008)
Delivering improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child and maternal health.
Perth: Telethon Institute of Child Research and Rio Tinto Child Health Partnership

Bibbulung gnarneep (’solid kid’): causal pathways to poor birth outcomes in an urban Aboriginal birth cohort

1 July, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Births  Health  Cardiovascular disease  

Eades S, Read A, Stanley F, Eades F, McCaullay D, et al. (2008)
Bibbulung gnarneep (’solid kid’): causal pathways to poor birth outcomes in an urban Aboriginal birth cohort.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health;44(6):342-346

The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2008

29 April, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 2  Births  Deaths  Health  

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008)
The Health and Welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2008.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics

Indigenous perinatal mental health resources

15 April, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 2  Births  Cultural ways  Women  Social and emotional wellbeing  Western Australia  

WA Perinatal Mental Health Unit (2007)
Indigenous perinatal mental health resources
Subiaco, WA: WA Perinatal Mental Health Unit, Women and Newborn Health Service, Department of Health