Objective This paper explores the body of knowledge around Indigenous health research and aims to outline what roles are appropriate for non-Indigenous researchers within Indigenous health research in Australia. Methods A literature review was conducted using CINAHL, PubMed and Scopus in May 2015. The search terms were 'non-Indigenous researchers' AND 'Indigenous health research' and other comb...

The purpose of this study is to apply the indigenous knowledge management model in form a process transforming tacit into explicit about local wisdom Java (tembang macapat) using information technology. Methods data collection by conducting FGD (Focus Group Discussion), PAR (Participatory Action Research) and questionnaires 50 respondents. Data were analyzed SECI (Socialization, Externalisation...

BACKGROUND In Chile, indigenous and non-indigenous schoolchildren have the same stature when they begin school but indigenous adults are shorter, indicating the importance of analyzing growth during puberty. The aim of this study was to compare the growth of indigenous and non-indigenous girls during the 36 months after menarche in Chile's Araucanía Region. METHODS A concurrent cohort study w...

Issues of diseases and healthcare are very crucial to human life survival. Africans have always sought find holistic impeccable remedies sicknesses that disturb being incurably religious employ perspectives in their healing systems. Ghanaians from time immemorial employed indigenous or traditional worldview system approach sicknesses. This paper explores the African practitioners’ diseases, cau...

OBJECTIVE: To review Indigenous infant mortality, stillbirth, birth weight, and preterm birth outcomes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. METHODS: Systematic searches of published literature and a review and assessment of existing perinatal surveillance systems were undertaken. Where possible, within country comparisons of Indigenous to non-Indigenous birth outcomes are i...

OBJECTIVES To explore the prevalence and severity of Indigenous and non-Indigenous child dental disease in relation to age, sex, residential location and socio-economic status in three Australian states and territories. DESIGN Children aged 4-14 years who were enrolled in a school dental or screening service in New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory, Australia, were rando...