INDIGENOUS HEALTH A multifaceted health-service intervention in remote Aboriginal communities: 3-year follow-up of the impact on diabetes care
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Menzies School of Health Research; Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT. Ross S Bailie, MPhil(MCH), MD, Associate Professor in Public Health; Damin Si, MMed, Research Scholar; Samantha J Togni, MA, Project Manager/Research Officer. School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT. Gary W Robinson, PhD, Acting Associate Dean. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD. Peter H N d’Abbs, PhD, Associate Professor. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Associate Professor Ross S Bailie, Menzies School of Health Research, PO Box 41096, Casuarina, NT 0811. [email protected] The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 16 August 2004 181 4 195200 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2004 www.mja.com.au Indigenous Health ness of such interventions, or on the impact of broader healthcare system reforms on specific aspects of care. Recent health reform initiatives — the “c ordinated care trials” (CCTs) — in two remote regions of the Northern Territory aimed to enhance governance and funding arrangements. A health Parti Inter and p of cli assoc Main
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A multifaceted health-service intervention in remote Aboriginal communities: 3-year follow-up of the impact on diabetes care.
OBJECTIVE To examine the trends in processes of diabetes care and in participant outcomes after an intervention in two remote regions of Australia. DESIGN Follow-up study over 3 years. SETTING Seven health centres in the Tiwi Islands and the Katherine West region of the Northern Territory. PARTICIPANTS 137 Aboriginal people with type 2 diabetes. INTERVENTION Implementation of a multifac...
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