BACKGROUND Indigenous populations have poorer health outcomes compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. The evolution of Indigenous primary health care services arose from mainstream health services being unable to adequately meet the needs of Indigenous communities and Indigenous peoples often being excluded and marginalised from mainstream health services. Part of the solution has been t...

The conventional schooling is considered the formal education where students acquire knowledge in classrooms. In the formal schooling system, each student receives the same science curriculum. When students did not catch on to the pace with other students, they often lack the opportunity to ask questions and to fully understand the logic and theory behind the science knowledge. Therefore, an in...

Developing supernumerary limbs is a rare congenital condition that only a few cases have been documented. Depending on the cause and developmental conditions, they may be single, multiple or complicated, and occur as a syndrome or associated with other anomalies. Polymelia is defined as the presence of extra limb(s) which have been reported in human, mouse, chicken, calf and lamb. It seems that...

Over the last ten years, much has been learnt in this department about balancing the requirements of evaluation and the realities of Indigenous culture and circumstance. The techniques used for evaluation of specialised assistance need to respond to the actual experience of Indigenous people and also meet the requirements for rigorous measurement and comparison with labour market programme perf...

13 T significant impact on health outcomes. Limited health literacy is not confined to Indigenous people, but it is greatlymagnified for speakers of Indigenous languages in comparison, for example, to non-English speaking migrants from countries where a scientific approach to medicine is practised andwhere these health concepts are already codified. The communication gap is most pronounced in r...