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0000-0001-8635-9855
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UNSW Sydney
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University of Sydney
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Charles Sturt University
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Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 26-09-2022
Abstract: Most research involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has been conducted by non-Indigenous people and has not been a positive experience for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. This scoping review maps approaches to health research involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities in Australia from the last two decades. A literature search found 198 papers, of which 34 studies met the inclusion criteria. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Quality Appraisal Tool was then used to map the quality of the reported community driven research. The Quality Appraisal Tool privileges, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s epistemologies and ethical research governance. The findings reported on strengths and identified areas for improvement in reporting community driven research.
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 12-03-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 31-01-2023
DOI: 10.1093/ACREFORE/9780190632366.013.436
Abstract: There are an estimated 370 million Indigenous peoples living in more than 70 countries. Indigenous populations are defined as the First Peoples occupying countries or regions at times of colonization, with distinct cultural, religious, and social practices that distinguish them from other populations. Indigenous peoples across the globe have deep, intimate, holistic, localized, and reciprocal relationships and connections to their “Country” (as it is known in Australia), which includes elements of the land, sea, waterways, sky, stars, and living and nonliving entities. This relationship is largely unacknowledged through Western biomedical models of health, which tend to focus on in idual risk behaviors and disease outcomes, thereby situating Indigenous health inequities in terms of deficiency and ignoring the ongoing impacts and trauma of colonization. Indigenous concepts of health are holistic, encompassing emotional, physical, cultural, and spiritual health. Country is central to health and is steeped in the harmonized interrelationships that constitute cultural well-being. Models for measuring and understanding health outcomes for Indigenous peoples need to respectfully incorporate the full range of determinants that are relevant to their health that understand the importance of connection to Country.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSAMS.2022.09.166
Abstract: Physical activity is holistically linked to culture and wellbeing among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the First Nation Peoples of Australia. Socioecological correlates of high physical activity among Indigenous children include living in a remote area and low screen time but little is known about early life determinants of physical activity. This paper examines sociodemographic, family, community, cultural, parent social and emotional wellbeing determinants of physical activity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Longitudinal cohort study. The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, the largest First Nations child cohort study in the world, primarily collects data through parental report. Multiple logistic regression analyses examined Wave 1 (age 0-5 years) predictors of achieving ≥1 h/day of physical activity at Wave 9 (aged 8-13 years). Of the 1181 children, 596 (50.5 %) achieved ≥1 h of physical activity every day. Achieving ≥1 h/day of physical activity at Wave 9 was associated with the following Wave 1 determinants: high parent social and emotional wellbeing (resilience adjusted odds ratio 1.87 (95 % confidence interval: 1.32-2.65)), living in remote (odds ratio 3.66 (2.42-5.54)), regional (odds ratio 2.98 (2.13-4.18)) or low socioeconomic areas (odds ratio 1.85 (1.08-3.17)), main source of family income not wages/salaries (odds ratio 0.66 (0.46-0.97)), and if families played electronic games (odds ratio 0.72 (0.55-0.94)). To achieve high physical activity levels among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, high parental culture specific social and emotional wellbeing and low family screen time in early life may compensate for apparently low socio-economic circumstances, including living in remote areas.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-11-2022
DOI: 10.1080/08164622.2022.2136514
Abstract: Access to culturally safe health services is a basic human right, however through the lasting effects of colonisation, oppression, and systemic racism, the in idual and community health of Indigenous peoples in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have been severely impacted. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy of the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency, and the Standards of Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety of the Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Board of New Zealand, recognise the importance of access to safe health care for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori patients, which encompasses both clinical competency and cultural safety. Universities have an ongoing responsibility to ensure their learning and teaching activities result in graduates being able to provide culturally safe practice. This article highlights the emergence of culturally safe practices in the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand optometry curricula over the last five years incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing into the curricula, understanding the local Indigenous histories and contexts, the adoption of online cultural education modules, and clinical placement partnerships with local Indigenous communities. Whilst there is still much work to do to achieve the goal of graduating culturally safe optometrists, this paper focuses on features that enable or impede progress in the development of culturally safe practices within the optometry programmes to improve eye health equity for Indigenous recognise the ersity of Indigenous cultures across Australia and NZ.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-02-2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 06-09-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.5172/CONU.2011.37.1.092
Abstract: The health and well-being of Indigenous Australians has been identified as a critical problem with high levels of chronic illness, morbidity and mortality compared to other Australian population groups. However, as health professionals we continue to discuss and theorise components of Indigenous health addressing issues in a piecemeal way. The concept of primary health care has been shown to have an independent effect on improving the health status of populations and having the ability to reduce health inequalities. Countries with well developed primary care systems have healthier populations and reduced health care costs (Macinko et al., 2003, p. 407). Primary health care combined with a community holistic approach and the defined use of student centered learning in Indigenous education has the potential to provide optimal health care and thus be an effective way to improve Indigenous Community health (McMurray, 2003, p. 296).
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