نتایج جستجو برای: indigenous study

تعداد نتایج: 3990948  

2012
John A Woods Judith M Katzenellenbogen Patricia M Davidson Sandra C Thompson

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases contribute substantially to the poor health and reduced life expectancy of Indigenous Australians. Heart failure is a common, disabling, progressive and costly complication of these disorders. The epidemiology of heart failure and the adequacy of relevant health service provision in Indigenous Australians are not well delineated. METHODS A systematic search ...

Journal: :Journal of paediatrics and child health 2015
Steven Guthridge Lin Li Sven Silburn Shu Qin Li John McKenzie John Lynch

AIM This study investigated the association between early-life risk factors and school education outcomes. METHODS This is an historical cohort study of 7601 children (61% were Indigenous) born in the Northern Territory between 1999 and 2004. Information was linked, for each child on: perinatal health, student enrolment and National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) Year 3 r...

Journal: :International Journal for Equity in Health 2008
Christopher P Burgess Helen L Berry Wendy Gunthorpe Ross S Bailie

BACKGROUND 'Caring for Country' is defined as Indigenous participation in interrelated activities with the objective of promoting ecological and human health. Ecological services on Indigenous-owned lands are belatedly attracting some institutional investment. However, the health outcomes associated with Indigenous participation in 'caring for country' activities have never been investigated. T...

2013
Sargylana A. Chugunova Tatiana Ya. Nikolaeva

BACKGROUND In Yakutia, the morbidity and mortality from stroke increased in the past 2 decades. Stroke share in the total mortality structure increased significantly. According to the autopsies, haemorrhagic stroke (HS) was more common in indigenous patients. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to examine ethnic features of stroke patients of indigenous and non-indigenous ethnicity admitted to...

2012
Margaret Kelaher Angeline Ferdinand Hugh Taylor

BACKGROUND This project is a community-level study of equity of access to eye health services for Indigenous Australians. METHODS The project used data on eye health services from multiple sources including Medicare Australia, inpatient and outpatient data and the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey.The analysis focused on the extent to which access to eye health services varied at an area ...

2012
Vanessa Johnston Darren W Westphal Cyan Earnshaw David P Thomas

BACKGROUND Adult smoking has its roots in adolescence. If individuals do not initiate smoking during this period it is unlikely they ever will. In high income countries, smoking rates among Indigenous youth are disproportionately high. However, despite a wealth of literature in other populations, there is less evidence on the determinants of smoking initiation among Indigenous youth. The aim of...

2017
Janice Du Mont Daisy Kosa Sheila Macdonald Anita Benoit Tonia Forte

In Canada, Indigenous women are more likely than non-Indigenous women to be survivors of sexual assault and experience sexual assaults that are more serious in terms of physical injury and other health-related consequences. Despite their related needs for care and support, there is a paucity of research to date that has examined their uptake of specialized acute health services post sexual assa...

2015
Yury A. Sumarokov Tormod Brenn Alexander V. Kudryavtsev Odd Nilssen

BACKGROUND Suicide is an important world health issue, especially in territories inhabited by indigenous people. This investigated differences in suicide rates, suicide methods, and suicide occurrence by month and day of the week among the indigenous and non-indigenous populations of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) and to compare the findings from the NAO with national Russian statistics. M...

2010
Louise J Maple-Brown Paul D Lawton Jaquelyne T Hughes Suresh K Sharma Graham RD Jones Andrew G Ellis Wendy Hoy Alan Cass Richard J MacIsaac Ashim K Sinha Mark AB Thomas Leonard S Piers Leigh C Ward Katrina Drabsch Sianna Panagiotopoulos Robyn McDermott Kevin Warr Sajiv Cherian Alex Brown George Jerums Kerin O'Dea

BACKGROUND There is an overwhelming burden of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease among Indigenous Australians. In this high risk population, it is vital that we are able to measure accurately kidney function. Glomerular filtration rate is the best overall marker of kidney function. However, differences in body build and body composition between Indigenous and non...

2013
Bernardo L Horta Ricardo Ventura Santos James R Welch Andrey M Cardoso Janaína Vieira dos Santos Ana Marlúcia Oliveira Assis Pedro CI Lira Carlos EA Coimbra Jr

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of undernutrition, which is closely associated with socioeconomic and sanitation conditions, is often higher among indigenous than non-indigenous children in many countries. In Brazil, in spite of overall reductions in the prevalence of undernutrition in recent decades, the nutritional situation of indigenous children remains worrying. The First National Survey of In...

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