Aboriginal health research and the National Aboriginal Health Strategy

Houston, Shane; Legge, David

doi:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1992.tb00037.x

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“…Informed by the 1989 holistic definition of health from the National Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Party, 12 publications relating to the wellbeing of the whole community, including health access, and Indigenous views on health and health delivery were included.…”

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Rapid review of five years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research in Australia – persisting under‐representation of urban populations

Jennings

Spurling

Shannon

et al. 2021

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: To review how published Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research reflects the geographical distribution of the Indigenous population of Australia. Methods: Rapid review using Lowitja Institute Lit.search tool for PubMed indexed Indigenous health research papers (January 2013 to January 2018). Geographic location, participant age, study type and recruitment site were identified for each paper. Results: A total of 1,258 research papers were identified: 190 (15%) focused exclusively on Indigenous people living in urban areas; 563 (45%) in rural/remote areas; and 505 (40%) spanned urban and rural/remote areas. Despite similar burdens of disease, three times as many papers were published per 1,000 DALYs for rural/remote areas than urban areas. Conclusions: Indigenous health research publications have more than doubled since 2010. However, research focusing on the health needs of urban Indigenous people remains low relative to disease burden and population. Implications for public health: More research to address the health needs of Indigenous people living in urban areas is required although this should not be at the expense of research for rural and remote areas. Increased funding quarantined for Indigenous health research, coupled with self‐determination of the research agenda and reporting on the geographic representativeness of research, may help address geographical inequities in research outputs.

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Rapid review of five years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research in Australia – persisting under‐representation of urban populations

Jennings

Spurling

Shannon

et al. 2021

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…For example, it has been suggested that medical and public health research have contributed to the health disadvantage of Australian Indigenous people. Rather than focusing on improving health for all, the current systems for measuring research performance concentrate only on scientific quality (Houston & Legge, 1992;Smith, 2001). However, the "field of Indigenous health research has been transformed over the past two decades, especially in terms of how researchers are expected to act towards and co-operate with Indigenous communities and organisations" (Humphery, 2000, p. 3).…”

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Applying Indigenist Research Methodologies in Health Research: Experiences in the Borderlands

Saunders

West

Usher

2010

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“…The NAHS was commended for reframing the Aboriginal health agenda 9–11 and for its community involvement and holistic approach 2,13 . However, most commentary focused on its lack of funding and implementation 14–16 .…”

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Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’?

Browne

Hayes

Gleeson

2014

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: To examine the extent to which nutrition has been prioritised in national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy.Method: Australian Government websites were searched for Aboriginal-specific health policies and strategies developed between 2000 and 2012. Thirteen documents describing nine policies were analysed.Results: Increased and more comprehensive inclusion of nutrition in Aboriginal health policy was identified during the first half of this period. In the second half, however, nutrition strategies were fragmented, and a much greater emphasis was placed on smoking. Conclusion and Implication:With the exception of food security in remote communities, nutrition seems to have disappeared from the national Aboriginal health policy agenda. This is a concern, given the burden of nutrition-related disease in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

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Aboriginal health research and the National Aboriginal Health Strategy

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Rapid review of five years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research in Australia – persisting under‐representation of urban populations

Rapid review of five years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research in Australia – persisting under‐representation of urban populations

Applying Indigenist Research Methodologies in Health Research: Experiences in the Borderlands

Aboriginal health policy: is nutrition the ‘gap’ in ‘Closing the Gap’?

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