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Bold bid to end rheumatic heart disease

Some of the nation’s leading medical researchers will converge on Darwin this week to step out a plan to wipe out rheumatic heart disease.

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Program review highlights strategies for improving Aboriginal mental health

Nationwide review looking at effective mental health strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

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Community-based participatory action research on rheumatic heart disease in an Australian Aboriginal homeland: Evaluation of the ‘On track watch’ project

Based in 'both-way learning', the aim of this study was to co-design, implement and evaluate community-based participatory action research to achieve this vision

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Decolonising Psychology: Validating Social and Emotional Wellbeing

This paper explores the meaning of these seven domains of social and emotional well-being.

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Early mortality from external causes in Aboriginal mothers: A retrospective cohort study

Whilst a disproportionate number of Aboriginal women die from potentially preventable causes, no research has investigated mortality in Aboriginal mothers.

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Violence Risk Assessment in Australian Aboriginal Offender Populations: A Review of the Literature

The utilization of violence risk instruments in forensic populations is increasing and a plethora of empirical investigations support their ability to...

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Addressing the relationship between racism and inequality in suicide...

In 2009 over 40 leading researchers and academics from across Australia signed the Boatshed Racism Roundtable Declaration that proposed four areas of action...

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The emerging role of the urban-based aboriginal peer support worker: A Western Australian study

Aboriginal Peer Support Workers identified their emerging integral role in the development of this unique culturally acceptable home visiting support for Aboriginal parents

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Working Together

This exciting new edition includes several new chapters that deliver an even more robust and high quality resource. It examines issues across the life course,..

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Effectiveness and experiences of families and support workers participating in peer-led parenting support programs delivered as home visiting programs

Positive impact of peer-led home visiting parent support programs, incorporating a framework of partnership between parents and home visitors