Reports that Australian Federal Minster for Health and Family Services Michael Wooldridge announced the signing of new bilateral agreements. Aim to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; Australia's government which has long faced international criticism over health standards and ...
GIVING A VOICE TO HEALTH TheNational Agreement on Closing the Gapwas launched in 2008, and its first listed target was to reduce the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation, by 2031. Despite improvements in some states,we are not on track to me...
Do physical activity interventions in Indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand improve activity levels and health outcomes? A systematic review Indigenous Australians and New Zealanders have a significantly shorter life expectancy than non-Indigenous people, mainly due to differences in prevalence .....
As health professionals, we must look beyond individual attributes of Indigenous Australians to gain a greater understanding and a possible explanation of why there are such high rates of ill health issues such as alcoholism, depression, abuse, shorter life expectancy and higher prevalence of diseases...
Literature on Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) and intellectual disability (ID) is summarized in order to identify current state of knowledge, gaps, and areas for further research.A selective review of psychiatric literature using relevant medical databases was undertak...
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We use unique survey data to examine the determinants of self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. We explore the degree to which differences in health are due to differences in socio-economic factors, and examine the sensitivity of our results to the inclusion of 'objecti...
Health, death and Indigen- ous Australians in the coronial system. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1: 41.carpenter, Belinda and tait, Gordon (2009) `Health, Death and Indigenous Australians in the Coronial System', Aboriginal Australian Studies, 1: 29-41....
Altman JC. The economic status of Indigenous Australians. Cent Aborig Econ Policy Res. 2000; Article Elyas Bakhtiari. Ethics declarations Ethics Approval This study relied on secondary data analysis and did not require formal ethics approval by the William and Mary Protection of Human Subjects Committ...