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A community-based program to reduce acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in northern Australia

In Australia’s north, Aboriginal peoples live with world-high rates of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and its precursor, acute rheumatic fever (ARF); driven by social and environmental determinants of health. We undertook a program of work to strengthen RHD primordial and primary prevention using a model addressing six domains: housing and environmental support, community awareness and empowerment, health literacy, health and education service integration, health navigation and health provider education.

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Violence Risk Assessment in Australian Aboriginal Offender Populations: A Review of the Literature

The utilization of violence risk instruments in forensic populations is increasing and a plethora of empirical investigations support their ability to...

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Addressing the relationship between racism and inequality in suicide...

In 2009 over 40 leading researchers and academics from across Australia signed the Boatshed Racism Roundtable Declaration that proposed four areas of action...

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Infant removals: The need to address the over-representation of Aboriginal infants and community concerns of another ‘stolen generation’

The disparity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal infant removals needs to be seen as a priority requiring urgent action to prevent further intergenerational trauma

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Emerging diabetes and metabolic conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people

Collaboration between clinicians and researchers is required to establish the prevalence and disease burden of type 2 diabetes among Indigenous young people

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Trends in mental health related contacts among mothers of Aboriginal children in Western Australia (1990-2013)

Many of the mental health issues that women develop earlier in life are chronic at the time of conception, during pregnancy and at birth

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Community-based participatory action research on rheumatic heart disease in an Australian Aboriginal homeland: Evaluation of the ‘On track watch’ project

Based in 'both-way learning', the aim of this study was to co-design, implement and evaluate community-based participatory action research to achieve this vision

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Reference genotype and exome data from an Australian Aboriginal population for health-based research

This data set provides a useful reference point for genomic studies on Aboriginal Australians