7. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mothers and Babies

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 ...

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.

The tobacco industry and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Perspective hile there has been a redoubling of efforts to reduce smoking rates among Indigenous Australians, Indigenous health researchers have paid almost no attention to the tobacco industry — the " vector " of smoking-related diseases. The exceptions are two reports of the use of Aboriginal images to advertise Winfield cigarettes in Europe. 1,2 We decided to examine industry documents to lo...

Tobacco Control and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

Tobacco control in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has not been addressed consistently due to other health-related problems being given higher priority. However, recently there has been increasing engagement between those working in tobacco control and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations recently. This is supported by Australian Government policies a...