Topics: Northern Territory

Injury of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to transport, 2001-02 to 2005-06

1 October, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 4  Injury  Northern Territory  Queensland  South Australia  Western Australia  

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Harrison JE, Berry JG (2008)
Injury of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to transport, 2001-02 to 2005-06 (AIHW Catalogue no. INJCAT 120)
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

An absence of mutual respect

3 September, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Justice  Northern Territory  

Aboriginal Resource and Development Services (2008)
An absence of mutual respect.
Winnellie (NT): Aboriginal Resource and Development Services

Infection rates after tympanostomy tube insertion, comparing Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective, comparative study.

20 August, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Ear health  Children  Northern Territory  

Jassar P, Sibtain A, Marco D, Jose J, Hunter G (2008)
Infection rates after tympanostomy tube insertion, comparing Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective, comparative study.
Journal of Laryngology and Otology;1-5

Delivery of child health services in Indigenous communities: implications for the federal government’s emergency intervention in the Northern Territory.

11 July, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Children  Services  Northern Territory  

Bailie RS, Si D, Dowden MC, Connors CM, O’Donoghue L, Liddle HE, et al. (2008)
Delivery of child health services in Indigenous communities: implications for the federal government’s emergency intervention in the Northern Territory.
Medical Journal of Australia;188(10):615-618

Racial disparities in infection-related mortality at Alice Springs Hospital, Central Australia, 2000-2005

8 July, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Deaths  Injury  Hospitalisation  Northern Territory  

Einsiedel L, Fernandes LA, Woodman RJ (2008)
Racial disparities in infection-related mortality at Alice Springs Hospital, Central Australia, 2000-2005.
Medical Journal of Australia;188(10):568-571

Northern Territory Emergency Response Taskforce: final report to Government: June 2008

7 July, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Child protection  Northern Territory  

Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2008)
Northern Territory Emergency Response Taskforce: final report to Government: June 2008.
Canberra: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Northern Territory Emergency Response: one year on

7 July, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Child protection  Northern Territory  

Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2008)
Northern Territory Emergency Response: one year on.
Canberra: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Heavy cannabis use and depressive symptoms in three Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

4 July, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Substance use  Illicit drug use  Social and emotional wellbeing  Northern Territory  

Lee KSK, Clough AR, Jaragba MJ, Conigrave KM, Patton GC (2008)
Heavy cannabis use and depressive symptoms in three Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.
Medical Journal of Australia;188(10):605-608

Northern Territory Emergency Response: one year on

3 July, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Child protection  Northern Territory  

The Howard Australian Government announced the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) on 21 June 2007 to protect ‘Aboriginal children from child abuse’ and to ’stabilise and protect communities in the crisis area’. The NTER was its response to the report Little Children are Sacred from the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of […]

Compared to placebo, long-term antibiotics resolve otitis media with effusion (OME) and prevent acute otitis media with perforation (AOMwiP) in a high-risk population: a randomized controlled trial

1 July, 2008 | Posted in Vol 8 No 3  Ear health  Northern Territory  

Leach AJ, Morris PS, Mathews JD (2008)
Compared to placebo, long-term antibiotics resolve otitis media with effusion (OME) and prevent acute otitis media with perforation (AOMwiP) in a high-risk population: a randomized controlled trial.
BMC Pediatrics;8:Article 23.