Moore HC, Lehmann D, de Klerk N, Jacoby P, Richmond PC (2011) Reduction in disparity for pneumonia hospitalisations between Australian indigenous and non-Indigenous children Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health; Online first: (1-6)
The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has released a new report showing that the pneumococcal vaccine program has contributed to ‘closing the gap’ in the levels of pneumonia between Indigenous children and non-Indigenous children in Australia.
The Minister for Indigenous Health, Mr Warren Snowdon has launched a new national workforce in Canberra (8 December 2010).
O’Grady KF, Revell A, Maguire G, Millonig R, Newman M, Reid D, Hill DC, Chang AB (2010) Lung health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Queensland Brisbane: Queensland Health
Cunningham J (2010) Socioeconomic status and self-reported asthma in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian adults aged 18-64 years: analysis of national survey data International Journal for Equity in Health; 9: (1-37)
The Commonwealth government has contributed $805.5 million to deliver the Indigenous Chronic Disease Package, as part of the COAG National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes.
O’Grady K-AF, Torzillo PJ, Chang AB (2010) Hospitalisation of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory for lower respiratory illness in the first year of life. Medical Journal of Australia;192:(586-590)
Valery PC, Masters IB, Taylor B, Laifoo Y, O’Rourke PK, et al. (2010) An education intervention for childhood asthma by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers: a randomised controlled trial. Medical Journal of Australia;192:(574-579)
Herceg A, Sharp PG, Arthur CG, Tongs JA (2010) Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 in an urban Aboriginal medical service. Medical Journal of Australia;192
Pierce R, Antic R, Chang A, Howard M, James A, et al. (2010) Respiratory and sleep health in Indigenous Australians. Sydney: Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand
