Health policy

“He’s the Number One Thing in My World”: Application of the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model to Explore Child Car Seat Use in a Regional Community in New South Wales 

We explored the factors influencing the use of age-appropriate car seats in a community with a high proportion of Aboriginal families in regional New South Wales.

The Indigenous Women's Wellness Research Program

  1. This article explores the successful use of yarning as a research method within a community-based indigenous women's wellness project.

Wellbeing though Cultural Participation: An affirmative strategy for the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability 

The aims of the project were to:

Developing a physical activity program for Aboriginal families with Machado Joseph Disease (MJD) living in the Top End of Australia

Aboriginal families with MJD from Groote Eylandt and Ngukurr, local community researcher partners (CRPs) and a non- Indigenous researcher from James Cook University have been working together on th

A Family Wellbeing case study: Sustainable implementation of Indigenous early childhood family support programs that work

An important way for improving Indigenous early childhood health is to make sure that family support programs that have been shown to work are widely available.

Meriba buay – ngalpan wakaythoemamay (We come together to share our thinking): Evaluating a community of practice for Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing

This project aims to investigate how Torres Strait Islanders use context-specific local knowledge and research evidence to address environmental sustainability challenges.

Quantifying the health benefits of on-country activities in the remote Indigenous community of Groote Eylandt

This project measured the benefits that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Groote Eylandt gain when they go ‘on-country’.

Our stories, our way: Cultural identities and health and wellbeing of Indigenous young people in diverse school settings

The aim of this project was to explore the views, experiences and stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young peoples in relation to their cultural identity and implications to health an

Yarning up with Koori kids

The project distributed digital cameras to the participants during information sessions. Children then returned to their communities and took photos of things that make them feel healthy and well.

Identifying the core elements of the cultural determinants of health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Project aims

To review and define Australian and international understandings of the cultural determinants of health and wellbeing and to identify and review the current evidence of the r