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Aboriginal children are faced with significant impediments to their chances of a healthy life even before they are born.
The impact of death, separation and divorce is having a profound impact on the lives of Aboriginal children.
High rates of recurrent infection are a major risk to the health of Aboriginal children and are comparable to those of third world countries.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are diverse, strong and faced with adverse social circumstances and unacceptable health and wellbeing outcomes wrought by colonisation. The need for strengths-based initiatives that tailor services according to local knowledges is well accepted, yet few studies have evaluated self-determined strategies to redress the social determinants of health.
This is the third fact sheet regarding the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project.
Consideration of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples must be situated within a context that recognises the impact of racism...
The experiences of 32 male Aboriginal students from regional and remote towns and communities while they attended a metropolitan boarding school...
In Australia, there is little empirical research of the racial identity of Indigenous children and youth as the majority of the current literature focuses on...
Scabies is endemic in many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, with 69% of infants infected in the first year of life.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians experience stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) with much greater frequency than non-Aboriginal Australians