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Overview of Australian Indigenous health status 2014
Get PDFThis Overview of Australian Indigenous health status provides information about: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations; the context of Indigenous health; various measures of population health status; selected health conditions; and health risk and protective factors.
This Overview of Australian Indigenous health status provides a comprehensive summary of the most recent indicators of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia (states and territories are: New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (Vic), Queensland (Qld), Western Australia (WA), South Australia (SA), Tasmania (Tas), The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and The Northern Territory (NT)). It draws largely on previously published information, some of which has been re-analysed to provide clearer comparisons between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous people (for more details of statistics and methods, readers should refer to the original sources). Very little information is available separately for Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people. It is often difficult to determine whether original sources that use the term ‘Indigenous\u27 are referring to Aboriginal people only, Torres Strait Islander people only or to both groups. In these instances the terms from the original source are used
Review of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous Australians
Get PDFThis review is intended to provide an authoritative, up-to-date account of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous people.PrefaceThis review of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous Australians has been prepared by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet as a part of our contributions to ‘closing the gap’ in health between Indigenous people and other Australians by making relevant, high quality knowledge and information easily accessible to policy makers, health service providers, program managers, clinicians, researchers and the general community. The review is an example of the HealthInfoNet’s translational research, defined as ‘comprehensive applied research that strives to translate the available knowledge and render it operational’.The main purpose of the review, which follows the model of narrative reviews/syntheses, is to provide an authoritative, up-to-date review of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous people that: (1) is a valuable overview for people working in the area; and (2) assists in the development/refinement of policies, strategies and programs.Research for the review involved the collection, collation, and analysis of a wide range of relevant information, including both published and unpublished material. Sources include the full range of relevant literature, including journal articles and other relevant publications, the vast majority of which are accessible via the HealthInfoNet’s Australian Indigenous HealthBibliography. This bibliography, with more than more 20,000 entries, captures all relevant journal articles, books, book chapters and reports (including the ‘grey’ literature).As well as the relevant journal literature, the HealthInfoNet’s reviews draw on important government reports, particularly those produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (SCRGSP), and reports in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework series. These reports, prepared by the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (AHMAC) in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2012, are accompanied by substantial detailed analyses, which are accessible on the AIHW website. The HealthInfoNet’s reviews also draw on information from the main administrative data collections (such as the birth and death registration systems and the hospital inpatient collections) and national surveys. Information from these sources has been published mainly in government reports, particularly those produced by the ABS and the AIHW.After providing the context of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, the body of the review outlines the extent of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous people, provides an overview of the various contributing factors, considers prevention and management, summarises a number of relevant policies and strategies, and provides some brief concluding comments. Rather than commence with an executive summary, the review is preceded by a section devoted to ‘Key facts’, which presents the summarised information in a more concise form.  
Summary of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status 2019
Get PDFThe Summary of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status 2019 (Summary) provides a brief and current overview of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia in a plain language and visual style. The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet has prepared the Summary as part of our contribution to support those in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce and those participating in research and working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities..
Summary of respiratory diseases among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
Get PDFThe Summary of respiratory diseases among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is a plain language publication that provides summarised and updated information from the Review of respiratory diseases among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children published by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet in 2018. The Summaryis useful for health workers and those studying in the field as a quick source of information about respiratory diseases among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. It focuses on: factors contributing to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children\u27s respiratory diseases how common acute and chronic respiratory diseases are prevention and management of these diseases related government policies and strategies
Summary of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status - selected topics 2020
Get PDFThe Summary of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status - selected topics 2020 is a useful source of the most recent national information for health workers and those studying in the field. It provides general information regarding the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the following topics: social and cultural determinants births and deaths hospitalisations chronic conditions (including CVD, cancer, diabetes and kidney health) sexually transmitted infections environmental health social and emotional wellbeing alcohol and other drug use.
The Summary is based on the Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status 2020 and has been prepared by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet as part of its effort to help \u27close the gap\u27 by providing the evidence base to inform practice and policy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. It presents statistical information from the Overview in plain language and in a visual format that is quick and easy for users to digest..
Translational research and the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
No full textThe Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet’s translational research contributes to ‘closing the gap’ in health between Indigenous and other Australians by informing practice and policy in Indigenous health. It does this by making the knowledge generated by various types of research and other information readily accessible to people working and studying in the area of Indigenous health.
Access to the best, up-to-date knowledge and information is being increasingly recognised as crucial to ‘bridging the gap between what is known and what is actually being done’ in health. The Institute of Medicine reached a similar conclusion after its recent review of the health care system in the United States: the system ‘frequently falls short in its ability to translate knowledge into practice’. The report commented on the chasm ‘between the health care we have and the care we could have’.
Recognition of the need to translate knowledge into policy and practice is not new however, with terms such as research utilisation, knowledge utilisation, research transfer, knowledge transfer, implementation science, and, more recently, knowledge translation having been used in recent decades to describe the process. The term ‘translational research’ has emerged recently as a potentially integrative description for these various terms. None of the earlier terms has been used widely in Australia, but ‘translational research’ appears to be gathering some momentum, including its use by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Social justice report 2011
No full textThis report covers the developments in the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for the 2010/2011 period. The theme of the report is lateral violence and its relevance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and how human rights frameworks can address this issue. Mick Gooda’s review focuses on developments relating to the:
National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
Indigenous Human Rights Network Australia
Northern Territory Emergency Response
Australian Government’s engagement framework
recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution
situation in Alice Springs
Close the Gap campaign
marking of 20 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Indigenous Economic Development Strategy.
Recommendations are outlined in the report.
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Overview of the health of Indigenous people in Western Australia 2013
Get PDFDrawing on statistics and other published and unpublished materials, this report provides up-to-date, detailed information about the health of Indigenous people in Western Australia in 2013.
Summary: This report provides comprehensive information specific to Western Australia (WA) on:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
the context of Indigenous health
various measures of population health status
selected health conditions
health risk and protective factors.
This WA Overview draws on statistics and other published and unpublished materials to provide up-to-date, detailed information about the health of Indigenous people in WA in 2013. It highlights a number of improvements in certain aspects of Indigenous health, but underlines that ongoing work is needed to ‘close the gap’ in health status between Indigenous and other Australians
Australia Day: a day for healing and gratitude
Get PDFThe Order of Australia Association invited me to their Australia Day Multi-Faith Celebration at Elder Hall, University of Adelaide on 26 January 2013. I was humbled and delightfully accepted the invitation. His Excellency Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce, Governor of South Australia, and Mrs Liz Scarce, Mr Hieu Van Le, Chairman of South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission, and leaders of the ethnic and religious communities amongst others attended the event. The heart-rending event was laced with speeches, music, religious symbols and scriptures. His Excellency Governor Kevin Scarce gave a speech on the theme of the event, ‘Australians Together: Giving and Forgiving’. Indigenous Kaurna Elder, Uncle Lewis O’Brien, offered a coolamon of eucalyptus leaves as an expression of friendship between the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and the people of South Australia. Indigenous Australians have used eucalyptus leaves to heal physical wounds. In his speech Mr Hieu Van Lee stated, ‘In this hall we have representatives of the first people of Australia, whose history and love for this land stretch back at least 40,000 years’. Mr Lee also mentioned that over the last two centuries people from almost every part of the world have migrated to Australia.
The Australia Day event reminded the audience that there can be differences among people but the ability to live together is the strength of Australian society. The event also reminded the audience that hurting other people can be human nature but forgiving is a conscious step towards reconciliation. Yet the Australia Day event was also a time for me to reflect on how the original owners of the land felt when British setters arrived in 1788, and later how they felt when Aboriginal children were forcibly taken away from their parents and moved to reserves under the ‘civilising task’ of the Australian federal and state governments and church missions.
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Dr Nahid Afrose Kabir is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia
Australian Indigenous Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre
No full textThe Knowledge Centre web resource aims to provide the evidence base to reduce harmful substance use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It provides quick and free online access to a comprehensive collection of relevant, evidence-based, current and culturally appropriate alcohol and other drug (AOD) knowledge-support and decision-support materials and information for individuals, communities, practitioners and policy makers that can be used in the prevention, identification and management of alcohol and other drug use in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.
The contract to develop the Australian Indigenous Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre (Knowledge Centre) was awarded to Edith Cowan University’s Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet by the Department of Health. HealthInfoNet Director, Professor Neil Drew, noted that ‘better information and knowledge are required to improve approaches to harmful substance use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Health professionals require access to a wide range of up to date and culturally appropriate materials and governments require evidenced based policy support materials. The Knowledge Centre will enable us to provide the collation and provision of advice to governments and health practitioners on Indigenous substance issues, with special focus on how current research can best inform future policy and planning and provision of strong and practical support for the Indigenous Alcohol and other drugs (AOD) workforce’.
The work of the Knowledge Centre is supported by a collaborative partnership with the three national alcohol and other drug research centres (the National Drug Research Institute, the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, and the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre). Guidance is provided by a National Reference Group comprising of specialists in the area of AOD
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