Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander material at the John Oxley Library: collection development and access

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 ...

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...

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.

Understanding practitioner professionalism in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: lessons from student and registrar placements at an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary healthcare service.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to be pathologised in medical curriculum, leaving graduates feeling unequipped to effectively work cross-culturally. These factors create barriers to culturally safe health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In this pilot pre-post study, the learning experiences of seven medical students and four medical registrars unde...