Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health sector came together in Brisbane today to assist in launching a suite of Deadly Choices preventative health promotional assets, including a series of television advertisements, aimed at limiting the number of community members ...
a trite and lacklustre attempt at neatly containing her and her many triumphs to a neat box.Some people cannot be so easily contained – and it is difficult to find one word that truly encapsulates all that she is.So here are a few: Resilient domestic abuse survivor. Ambitious nurse. Socia...
Participants were recruited from an Aboriginal-owned and operated primary health clinic in northern Brisbane, Australia and through word of mouth. Information collected was transcribed and analysed thematically. Codes and themes were confirmed by the researcher and two participants. Results: The findings ...
Prior to colonisation, alcohol was not unknown in some Aboriginal societies; the Yolngu word for alcohol—nganaji, for example, is derived from a term used by Macassan trepang fishermen who for several centuries regularly visited the Arnhem Land coast, bringing their liquor with them. But nothin...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from across SEQueensland have experienced a day in the life of a physiotherapist thanks to a new pilot program at Mater Hospital Brisbane. The school-based trainees from the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH), Pathways Our Way Academy (POWA...
Word]) OR (“Continuity of Patient Care”[MeSH Terms] OR continuity of care [Text Word]) OR (“Health Services, Indigenous”[MeSH Terms] OR Indigenous health service [Text Word])) AND (“Oceanic Ancestry Group”[MeSH Terms] OR Aboriginal [Text Word] OR Torres Strait Islander [Text Word...
This qualitative study took place in Yuggara Country, with the Indigenous community of Inala, a south-western suburb of Brisbane. The Inala Community Jury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research [18] identified addressing FASD as a research priority and provided support for research...
Based on these results, grounded theory was then applied by coding for the themes emerging from the word counts. During the coding process, new themes also emerged that had not been expressed in the word counts. Once all interviews were coded and new themes identified, coding with all themes...