Health policy
Can community-level strategies improve timely diagnosis of chronic conditions and best-practice care for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people including dementia?
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people experience dementia at a rate three to five times higher than the general Australian population.
Kaat Koort: Examining the impact of a program targeting cardio-metabolic risk and lifestyle changes on heart and brain health among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Prevention programs are urgently required to help prevent dementia in older Aboriginal populations. Given the links between cardiovascular risk factors and vascular dementia, The Kaat Koort study
Carers' perspectives on an effective Indigenous health model for childhood asthma in the Torres Strait
OBJECTIVE: To describe parents'/carers' views of the characteristics of a clinical service model shown to improve asthma outcomes. PARTICIPANTS: Thirty‐five children received the intervention and
“I know it’s bad for me and yet I do it”: exploring the factors that perpetuate smoking in Aboriginal Health Workers - a qualitative study
Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) have a mandate to deliver smoking cessation support to Aboriginal people.
“In Their Own Voice”—Incorporating Underlying Social Determinants into Aboriginal Health Promotion Programs
Despite growing acknowledgement of the socially determined nature of health disparities among Aboriginal people, how to respond to this within health promotion programs can be challenging.
Top End Tobacco Project
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded Top End Tobacco Project aimed to reduce tobacco smoking in three remote Aboriginal communities plus several homelands in the Top End
Doing the hard yards': Carer and provider focus group perspectives of accessing Aboriginal childhood disability services
Despite a high prevalence of disability, Aboriginal Australians access disability services in Australia less than non-Aboriginal Australians with a disability.
The Yawuru Wellbeing Project
Wellbeing can mean many things to many different people. For Yawuru people, mabu liyan is at the heart of what it is to have and to know a good life.