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Our journey, our story: a study protocol for the evaluation of a co-design framework to improve services for Aboriginal youth mental health and well-being

Mainstream Australian mental health services are failing Aboriginal young people. Despite investing resources, improvements in well-being have not materialised. Culturally and age appropriate ways of working are needed to improve service access and responsiveness. This Aboriginal-led study brings Aboriginal Elders, young people and youth mental health service staff together to build relationships to co-design service models and evaluation tools.

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Increased mortality among Indigenous persons during and after release from prison in New South Wales

The objective of this study was to estimate the overall and cause specific mortality of Aboriginal offenders in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

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'If I Wanted to Have More Opportunities and Go to a Better School, I Just Had to Get Used to It’

The experiences of 32 male Aboriginal students from regional and remote towns and communities while they attended a metropolitan boarding school...

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Extensive Diversity of Streptococcus pyogenes in a Remote Human Population Reflects Global-Scale Transmission Rather than Localised Diversification

The Indigenous population of the Northern Territory of Australia (NT) suffers from a very high burden of Streptococcus pyogenes disease, including cardiac...

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Nitazoxanide for the treatment of infectious diarrhoea in the Northern Territory, Australia 2007-2012

This paper examines the use of a new antibiotic to treat diarrhoea cause by Cryptosporidium infection in Australian Indigenous children.

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Gaps in Indigenous disadvantage not closing: A census cohort study of social determinants of health in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand from 1981-2006

Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are all developed nations that are home to Indigenous populations which have historically faced poorer outcomes than their...

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Weaving the narratives of relationship in community participatory research

The Looking Forward Project is the story of our work with the Nyoongar community working together with mental health and drug and alcohol service providers...

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Heavy maternal alcohol consumption and cerebral palsy in the offspring

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between heavy maternal alcohol consumption and pre- peri- and postneonatally acquired cerebral palsy.

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Research as intervention: Engaging silenced voices

The emergence of Indigenous researchers into the public health research sector presents a challenge to what have traditionally been Western-based research...