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Gap between death rates for Aboriginal and non-AboriginalGAP BETWEEN DEATH RATES FOR ABORIGINAL AND NON-ABORIGINAL INFANTS WIDENING
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Pain of forced separation affecting a new generationA new report has found that the long term effects of past government policies to forcibly separate Aboriginal children from their families are being felt
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Ngulluk Moort, Ngulluk Boodja, Ngulluk Wirin (Our Family, Our Country, Our Spirit) Out-of-Home Care StudyWe are working with the leadership and staff at foster care agencies and community members to provide information about cultural connection, and cultural activity and resources for Aboriginal children living in non-Aboriginal care arrangements.
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Aboriginal women lead design of maternal and child healthcare modelA group of 19 Aboriginal women from South Australia, along with researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia, have developed a culturally responsive, evidence-based model of care to support Aboriginal women with cardiometabolic complications in pregnancy in SA.
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Nitazoxanide for the treatment of infectious diarrhoea in the Northern Territory, Australia 2007-2012This 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 1981-2006Australia, 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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How growing up disadvantaged set Isabelle Adams on a path to help othersTo celebrate NAIDOC week we sat down with Isabelle Adams, the coordinator of The Kids Research Institute Australia's Kulunga Aboriginal Research Development Unit (KARDU).
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Indigenous infants in remote Australia retain an ancestral gut microbiome despite encroaching Westernization
Studies of traditional Indigenous compared to 'Western' gut microbiomes are underrepresented, and lacking in young children, limiting knowledge of early-life microbiomes in different cultural contexts. Here we analyze the gut metagenomes of 50 Indigenous Australian infants (median age
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Islet autoimmunity in young First Nations women with prediabetes and type 2 diabetesType 1 diabetes in First Nations peoples is low yet type 2 diabetes is at epidemic proportions. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of islet autoimmunity in First Nations women with dysglycaemia and its association with clinical features.
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‘I have to jump like a kangaroo … I have to slither like a snake’. A qualitative evaluation of elder-led art workshops in the child protection sectorIndigenous peoples globally have incurred significant harm resulting from colonisation and the forced removal of children from their families, culture, communities and Country. Over the last two decades in Australia, there have been calls for significant reform and there has been a raft of policy changes in child protection services. However the problems are intractable, and the numbers of Indigenous children being removed from their families continues to rise.