Topics: Social issues

“Echo Clusters” - Are they a unique phenomenon of Indigenous attempted and completed suicide?

11 March, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Research  Social and emotional wellbeing  Social determinants  

Hanssens L (2010)
“Echo Clusters” - Are they a unique phenomenon of Indigenous attempted and completed suicide?
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal;34(1):17-26

Native title report 2009

27 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Physical environment  Social issues  

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2009)
Native title report 2009.
Sydney: Australian Human Rights Commission

Social justice report 2009

27 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cultural ways  Justice  Policy  Social issues  

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2009)
Social justice report 2009.
Sydney: Australian Human Rights Commission

RHD Australia: a national approach to rheumatic heart disease prevention and management

25 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Cardiovascular disease  Health services  Social issues  

The Federal Government has announced that it will spend $2.5 million to help combat rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and acute rheumatic fever (ARF), through the establishment of RHDAustralia, a new centre dedicated to prevention and management of the disease.

Everybody’s Business: Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Community Stores

11 January, 2010 | Posted in Vol 10 No 1, January 2010 - March 2010  Health  Nutrition  Remote  Rural  Social issues  

House of Representatives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee (2009)
Everybody’s business: remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait community stores.
Canberra: The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia

Australian Indigenous adolescents with chronic conditions: sociocultural context

24 December, 2009 | Posted in Vol 9 No 4, October 2009 - December 2009  Disability  Adolescents  Social determinants  

McDonald H (2009)
Australian Indigenous adolescents with chronic conditions: sociocultural context.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health;45(11):629-632

Joining the dots: the links between education and health and implications for Indigenous children

26 November, 2009 | Posted in Vol 9 No 4, October 2009 - December 2009  Adolescents  Social determinants  

Johnston V, Lea T, Carapetis J (2009)
Joining the dots: the links between education and health and implications for Indigenous children.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health;Early view

Preliminary spatiotemporal analysis of the association between socio-environmental factors and suicide

19 November, 2009 | Posted in Vol 9 No 4, October 2009 - December 2009  Environmental health  Social and emotional wellbeing  Social determinants  

Qi X, Tong S, Hu W (2009)
Preliminary spatiotemporal analysis of the association between socio-environmental factors and suicide.
Environmental Health;(8):Article 46.

Australia’s welfare 2009

17 November, 2009 | Posted in Vol 9 No 4, October 2009 - December 2009  Housing  Children  Family  Older people  Services  Social determinants  

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2009)
Australia’s welfare 2009.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Empowerment and Indigenous Australian health: a synthesis of findings from Family Wellbeing formative research

10 November, 2009 | Posted in Vol 9 No 4, October 2009 - December 2009  Research  Social and emotional wellbeing  Social determinants  

Tsey K, Whiteside M, Haswell-Elkins M, Bainbridge R, Cadet-James Y, et al. (2009)
Empowerment and Indigenous Australian health: a synthesis of findings from Family Wellbeing formative research.
Health and Social Care in the Community;Early View:1-11