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Health outcomes for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples are very poor. This is considerably worse in remote regions. The East Pilbara, where the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the Martu and Nyiyaparli people reside, is one such remote region.
Surgical intervention is an important treatment modality for advanced rheumatic heart disease (RHD). This study aimed to describe patient characteristics and outcomes from cardiac surgery for RHD in patients referred to the only tertiary paediatric hospital in Western Australia.
The objective of this study was to investigate cardiometabolic health markers among Aboriginal adolescents aged 10-24 years and relationships with age, gender, and body composition.
There is a lack of data on the out-of-hospital burden of acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in developed countries.
Globally, ARF and RHD cause more than a quarter of a million deaths and substantial disability each year.
The burden of mental health problems among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is a major public health problem in Australia.
Our findings highlight the need to consider age, ethnicity, seasonality and climate when evaluating rotavirus vaccine programs.
Our goal was to identify genetic risk factors for severe otitis media (OM) in Aboriginal Australians.
Methodological issues and implications for interventions to support young Aboriginal people's adaptation are discussed.
Antismoking mass media campaigns have been shown to reduce smoking prevalence in the mainstream community.