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The Second Research Report: patterns and trends in mortality of Western Australian infants, children and young people 2004-2005

This report was commissioned by the Department for Child Protection as an ongoing initiative to continue the work initiated by researchers at the Telethon Kids

Antenatal services for Aboriginal women: the relevance of cultural competence

Due to persistent significantly poorer Aboriginal perinatal outcomes, the Women's and Newborns' Health Network, require a comprehensive appraisal...

Indigenous well-being in four countries

Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand consistently place near the top of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index...

Theories of otitis media pathogenesis, with a focus on Indigenous children

Otitis media is a common childhood illness associated with hearing loss, social disadvantage and medical costs. Prevalence and severity are high among...

Rio Tinto Child Health Partnership Final Report

In 2002, the Founding Director of The Kids for Child Health Research, Professor Fiona Stanley, approached Rio Tinto Ltd about the possibility...

Diverging trends for lower respiratory infections in non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal children

To investigate temporal trends in admission rates for acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in a total population birth cohort of non-Aboriginal and...

Interpretation of recent sudden infant death syndrome rates in Western Australia

Data for recent years show a shift away from a classification of 'SIDS' towards a classification of 'unascertainable', particularly for Aboriginal infants.

Understanding and working with different worldviews to co-design cultural security in clinical mental health settings to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients

Creating the conditions for meaningful relationships is essential to understanding Aboriginal worldviews and co-designing ways of working to achieve better health outcomes. Non-Aboriginal health professionals struggle to recognise the importance of social relationships to Aboriginal peoples and tensions emerge due to these different worldviews informed by different ontologies and epistemologies. This is more so in clinical settings where training and models of care are often inadequate for working with Aboriginal people.

The Development and Implementation of a Culturally Safe Survey for Measuring Knowledge, Attitudes and Values around FASD and Alcohol Use During Pregnancy in a Remote Australian Aboriginal Community Setting

Glenn Martyn Pearson Symons BA (Education) PhD Candidate B.A. (Hons) PhD. Director of First Nations Strategy and Leadership; Head, First Nations

Getting to the heart of the matter: a research partnership with Aboriginal women in South and Central Australia

Within the vast majority of qualitative health research involving Indigenous populations, Indigenous people have been marginalised from research conceptualisation and conduct. This reflects a lack of regard for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, has served to perpetuate deficit narratives of Indigenous peoples’ health and wellbeing, and contributes to failure in addressing inequities as a result of ongoing colonisation and institutionalised oppression and racism.