As the Aged Care Royal Commission shifts its focus to aged care for Indigenous Australians, access isn't the only challenge. Often problems arise when services don't accommodate their cultural needs.
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When care is equity-oriented, patients report fewer depression and trauma symptoms, less chronic pain and improved quality of life.
The experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians must be at the forefront of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
The absence of Indigenous Australians in rehabilitation services has created the belief they don't want therapy. The reality is they want services which better meet their cultural needs.
Aboriginal mothers in prison feel intergenerational trauma and the forced removal of their children are the most significant factors impacting their health and well-being.
Online abuse has been in the spotlight during this election campaign and AFL season. But researchers and policy-makers alike need to do more to understand cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians.
The Coalition and Labor have outlined their plans for Indigenous health spending. There are some worthwhile pledges, but these policy promises could better reflect what our First Nations people need.
Almost half of Aboriginal kids living remotely will have a school sore at any one time. But there aren't enough of the right antibiotics to treat them.
Poverty and social exclusion play a big role in Indigenous child suicide. The causes are complex but we know enough to act now to reduce the number of deaths in our communities.
Māori and Pasifika leaders' experience of racism in government advisory groups suggests ongoing inequities in New Zealand health policy.
Some targets seem easier to meet than others, while some are just plain unreliable. Here are four things we've learnt from the last decade of Closing the Gap policy.
A design team at Emily Carr University worked with families from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nation to support the development of healthy environments for children.
A diagnosis of mental illness is only one in a number of risk factors for suicide. And for Indigenous Australians, a history of dispossession and disempowerment plays a much bigger role.
Recent revelations of the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada are part of a long, complex and disturbing history -- in which feminism became a fight to keep one's own children.
The NDIS has good intentions, but its design doesn't seem to support the unique needs of Indigenous people living with a disability, particularly if they're living in remote communities.
The NT has become the first jurisdiction in Australia to introduce a minimum price for alcohol.
At least half the food eaten by the first Australians came from plants. And in terms of medicines, many different parts of plants were used.
Traditional Aboriginal healers are recognised as having special facilities for healing in childhood and are encouraged to develop their skills. They are often taught by their grandparents.
To deliver better housing for health, we must go back to what we know works, to the proven evidence-based solutions for design, construction, delivery and maintenance.
Young people in remote Aboriginal communities have high rates of STIs for a number of reasons, including inconsistent condom use and poor access to health services.
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Professor, School of Public Health and Social Work; School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases Research Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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ARC Research Fellow in Indigenous Health, Disability and Community Development, University of Sydney
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General Manager Diabetes Services, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Senior Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research
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Professor and Head Clinical Research Domain, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, Nura Gili Indigenous Programs Unit, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Conjoint Associate Professor at the Centre for Primary Healthcare and Equity, UNSW
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Peter d'Abbs is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Substance Misuse Studies, Menzies School of Health Research, Menzies School of Health Research
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Head, Tobacco Control Research Program, Menzies School of Health Research
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Medical Research Scientist, Clinical Practice Unit (Respiratory Medicine) The Queen Elizabeth Hospital; PhD Scholar, University of Adelaide
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Independent journalist and health writer; Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney; Founder of Croakey.org. PhD candidate, University of Canberra
