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The daily smoking rate among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is falling, but at 42%, it’s still 2.6 times that of other Australians.
Food is often the first thing to go when there is not enough money to pay the bills.
An Aussie smile is an instant indicator of socioeconomic status, employability and self-esteem. It’s also a predictor of physical health. So it’s shocking that Australians’ dental health has not improved…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have significantly poorer health and lower life expectancy than other Australians. But while reducing these inequalities is a priority for governments, national…
In some jurisdictions of Australia, the rate of Indigenous children in foster, kinship and residential care on any one night has reached almost one in ten. This rate is almost ten times higher than non-Aboriginal…
Sexuality is a means of pleasure, fulfilment and intimate connection with other humans. But it can also be a source of anguish. So it’s perhaps no surprise that of all the areas in health care, the “STI…
Tony Abbott spent most of this week in North East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. In the final of our Abbott in…
Tony Abbott spent most of this week in North East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. We asked our experts: what stories…
Tony Abbott is spending this week in North-East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. We asked our experts: what stories…
Tony Abbott is spending this week in North-East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. We asked our experts: what stories…
The tragedy of vision loss and blindness in Indigenous communities is striking: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have six times more blindness than non-Indigenous adults and nearly three times…
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and early death among Indigenous Australians, with smoking responsible for about one in every five deaths. Among Indigenous Australians, tobacco…
Indigenous people are estimated to comprise 4.5% of the total global population. They are often overrepresented in HIV data and recognise themselves as being particularly vulnerable to HIV. In Canada…
We’ve recently seen some encouraging improvements in closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage: better educational outcomes, higher child immunisation rates, more health checks, and a 35% drop in the…
Vintage medical textbooks are filled with diagnoses unfamiliar to contemporary doctors – wandering wombs, blackwater fever, biliousness and other historic curios. Acute rheumatic fever has become one of…
Despite prime minister Tony Abbott’s apparent passion for Indigenous affairs, last week’s federal budget – his government’s first – shows he has followed a well-trodden political path. This path leads…
Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory are three times as likely to develop dementia than non-Indigenous people…
A tool used to screen a person’s risk of depression has been modified for older Indigenous Australians who live in the Kimberley…
Think of Aboriginal health and you’ll probably recall messages of large gaps in life expectancy, increasing rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes, kidney disease and asthma. Or that the last ten years…
Top contributors
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Director of POCHE Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland
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ARC Research Fellow in Indigenous Health, Disability and Community Development, University of Sydney
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Professor, Public Health Policy, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Purple House Medical Advisor. Honorary ANU., Australian National University
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Scientia lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Tom Calma is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chancellor, University of Canberra
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Senior Fellow, Australian National University
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Head of Diabetes Clinics, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Senior Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor and Head Clinical Research Domain, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Social Research and Policy, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
