Tasmanian Aborigines and DNA

Tasmanian Aborigines step up to health: evaluation of a cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and secondary prevention program

BACKGROUND Although the burden of cardiopulmonary diseases in the Aboriginal community is high, utilisation of rehabilitation services has been poor. We evaluated the uptake and effectiveness of a cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation program specifically designed and provided for the Aboriginal community, by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, for people with diagnosed chronic heart or resp...

Aborigines , values and the environment

Immune dysfunction in Australian Aborigines.

An examination of the prevalence and phenotype of immune disorders in different ethnic groups may provide important clues to the etiopathogenesis of these disorders. Whilst still conjectural the restricted and somewhat unique polymorphisms of the MHC (and other genetic loci involving host defences) of the Australian Aborigines may provide an explanation for their apparent heightened susceptibil...

Tasmanian School of Nursing

Many is the starry-eyed couple who have pledged their unending love for each other, sealed with those infamous words 'til death do us part', tossing the phrase liberally forth with no concept that death will indeed one day sever the bond between them, and facilitate in that remaining, one of the most momentous changes that they may ever have had to negotiate. That Australian society is a progre...

Tasmanian Health Services

TASMANIA, the heart-shaped island State two hundred miles below south-east Australia, is the second oldest state in the Commonwealth. History is graven into stone buildings that date back to the days of first settlement in 1803. The past lives on in cobbled streets, in ruins, and in old white farmhouses and inns. But though Tasmania wears an air of antiquity gracefully, her Government and admin...