OBJECTIVE: To review Indigenous infant mortality, stillbirth, birth weight, and preterm birth outcomes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. METHODS: Systematic searches of published literature and a review and assessment of existing perinatal surveillance systems were undertaken. Where possible, within country comparisons of Indigenous to non-Indigenous birth outcomes are i...

Recent literature has highlighted issues of racial discrimination in medicine. In order to explore the sometimes subtle influence of racial determinants in decisions about resource allocation, we present the case of a 53-year-old Australian Aboriginal woman with end-stage renal failure. The epidemiology of renal failure in the Australian Aboriginal population and amongst other indigenous people...

This article examines the intersecting social circumstances of Australian women's intimate, international relationships with American and other foreign allied servicemen during Second World War, including their experiences romance, marriage, divorce subsequent child-maintenance USA. We explore how widely varying, often highly personalised, perceptions raced, classed ethnic status, across differ...

OBJECTIVES To explore the prevalence and severity of Indigenous and non-Indigenous child dental disease in relation to age, sex, residential location and socio-economic status in three Australian states and territories. DESIGN Children aged 4-14 years who were enrolled in a school dental or screening service in New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory, Australia, were rando...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) and cardiac structural characteristics in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional study linking clinical, echocardiography and administrative databases over a 10-year period. SETTING A tertiary, university teaching hospital in Adelaide, Australia. PARTICIPANTS Indigenous and non-Indigen...

In Brazil, data on education, the labor market, and the law enforcement and court systems have already documented that racial discrimination is a structural factor underlying economic and social disadvantages experienced by racial/ethnic minorities. However, racial inequalities in health have received little investigation. According to health indicators presented in this paper, race is a strong...

In recent years, scholars in the fields of cultural studies, American history, ethnic and Middle East area studies have approached questions race racism this geographic region with renewed critical vigor. Recent work deconstructing anti-Arab Islamophobia Americas Europe has put these patterns discrimination into intersectional conversation anti-Black anti-Indigenous racism. New historical effor...

The development of critical race theory points to a new direction taken by civil rights activists in the wake of civil rights setbacks in the 1970s and 1980s when ofacial government policy no longer supported an expansive civil rights agenda. The United States Supreme Court began limiting and eviscerating precedents that once promised full equality for African Americans under the law. Critical ...

A total of 82 isolates of Plasmopara halstedii, collected from all production areas of Hungary between 1976 and 1993, were assessed for their virulence pattern on a standard set of sunfiower differentials under glasshouse conditions. The isolates were classified into six pathogenic races each representing a particular virulence phenotyjje. From 1976 until 1988 all the isolates were found to be ...