58 Child car restraint use among aboriginal and torres strait islander children

Acculturation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition.

The health status of Australia's indigenous people remains the worst of any subgroup within the population, and there is little evidence of any significant improvement over the past two decades, a situation unprecedented on a world scale. Compared with non-indigenous Australians, adult life expectancy is reduced by 15-20 years, with twice the rates of mortality from heart disease, 17 times the ...

Managing skin infections in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

BACKGROUND Skin infections are a cause of significant morbidity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. OBJECTIVE This article gives an overview of some of the issues to consider when managing a patient with a skin infection. These issues may impact on completion of treatment and development of complications in the long term. DISCUSSION Management should consist of treatment o...

Alcohol and other drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men entering prison in New South Wales

Introduction and aims: Prison entrants commonly have a history of problematic alcohol and other drug (AoD) use. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians are vastly overrepresented in Australian prisons with an incarceration rate 16 times that of non-Indigenous Australians. Relatively little attention has been given to the patterns of AoD use among prison entrants and we hy...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health, wellbeing and leadership.

References 1 Edwards C, Read P, editors. The lost children: thirteen Australians taken from their Aboriginal families tell of the struggle to find their natural parents. Sydney: Doubleday, 1989. 2 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Bringing them home. A. Building spirit, building health: implications of innovations in Australian indigenous health for all men's health. boriginal and ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and tobacco.