- Evaluation of the SMARTACOP score for stratifying pneumonia risk in a Torres Strait Islander population
Posted: January 29, 2014
McIver L1, Berghofer H1, Tongpao L1, Kippin A1, Buettner P2 (2013) Evaluation of the SMARTACOP score for stratifying pneumonia risk in a Torres Strait Islander population. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 14(1). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/evaluation-of-the-smartacop-score-for-stratifying-pneumonia-risk-in-a-torres-strait-islander-population - The potential impact of mainstreaming government services and water on the food security of a regional Indigenous community: insights from a focus group
Posted: July 9, 2012
Willis E1, Pearce M2 and Thallon A3 (2012) The potential impact of mainstreaming government services and water on the food security of a regional Indigenous community: insights from a focus group. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 12(3). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/the-potential-impact-of-mainstreaming-government-services-and-water-on-the-food-security-of-a-regional-indigenous-community-insights-from-a-focus-group/ - Community stores influence the health of Aboriginal people living in the Fitzroy Valley region of the Kimberley
Posted: March 19, 2012
Bussey C (2012) Community stores influence the health of Aboriginal people living in the Fitzroy Valley region of the Kimberley. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 12(1). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/community-stores-influence-the-health-of-aboriginal-people-living-in-the-fitzroy-valley-region-of-the-kimberley/ - The central role of Aboriginal families in motivational counselling: family support and family ‘humbug’
Posted: January 11, 2010
Nagel T, Thompson C (2009) The central role of Aboriginal families in motivational counselling: family support and family ‘humbug’. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 10(1). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/the-central-role-of-aboriginal-families-in-motivational-counselling-family-support-and-family-humbug/ - Adapting the Australian Public Mental Health Performance Indicators to the contextual needs of a remote area child and youth mental health service
Posted: February 5, 2009
Santhanam R, McEwan A, Bainbridge R, Hunter E, Haswell M, et al. (2008) Adapting the Australian Public Mental Health Performance Indicators to the contextual needs of a remote area child and youth mental health service. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 9(1). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/adapting-the-australian-public-mental-health-performance-indicators-to-the-contextual-needs-of-a-remote-area-child-and-youth-mental-health-service/ - Building capacity towards health leadership in remote Indigenous communities in Cape York
Posted: January 19, 2009
Lavarack G, Hill K, Akenson L, Corrie R (2008) Building capacity towards health leadership in remote Indigenous communities in Cape York. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 9(1). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/building-capacity-towards-health-leadership-in-remote-indigenous-communities-in-cape-york/ - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids and bikes: socio-cultural factors and safety
Posted: April 17, 2007
Malcolm Vick View PDF Abstract Objective: The study sought to document young Indigenous people’s bike riding practices, explore cultural factors shaping those practices and consider ways those practices might put them at risk. Methods: Ninety five Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school students participated in face to face interviews or focus groups, and completed […] - Are boys more vulnerable to nutritional stress? Child weight growth in a Queensland Aboriginal community (1950-1982) in comparison with the new WHO references
Posted: July 17, 2006
Hilary Bambrick View PDF Abstract Background: Previous studies have universally found that Aboriginal children exhibit poor growth in relation to international references. Objective: To determine how weight-for-age growth of children born 1950-1982 in a large Queensland Aboriginal community compare with the recent World Health Organization (WHO) international reference data, and whether girls and boys show […] - Relationships between BMI, waist circumference, hypertension and fasting glucose: rethinking risk factors in Indigenous diabetes
Posted: October 17, 2005
Hilary Bambrick View PDF Abstract Objective: To determine whether the body mass index (BMI) threshold defined for obesity (30kg/m2) adequately reflects risk in an Aboriginal community with a high rate of Type 2 diabetes. Methods: Data about five diabetes risk factors (age, BMI, waist circumference (WC), hypertension and family history) and fasting glucose (FG) were […] - Type 2 diabetes and patterns of alcohol use in a Queensland Aboriginal community
Posted: July 17, 2004
Hilary Bambrick View PDF Abstract Objectives To assess patterns of alcohol consumption in people with and without diabetes. Methods Location was a large Aboriginal community in southeast Queensland. Participants with diagnosed diabetes were identified through the hospital database (49 women, 38 men), and never-diagnosed participants recruited through random household sampling (62 women, 55 men). Alcohol […]