Indigenous Australians experience profound levels of disadvantage in health, living standards, life expectancy, education and employment, particularly in comparison with non-Indigenous Australians. Very little information is available about the healthy development of Australian Indigenous children; the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) is designed to fill this knowledge gap.This ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical epidemiology of chlamydia among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) people attending sexual health services around Australia. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of routine demographic, behavioural and clinical data, between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2011. SETTING 18 sexual health services in major cities and regional centres in five jurisdicti...

OBJECTIVE A needs analysis was undertaken to determine the quality and effectiveness of mental health services to Indigenous consumers within a health district of Southern Queensland. The study focussed on identifying gaps in the service provision for Indigenous consumers. Tools and methodologies were developed to achieve this. METHOD Data were collected through the distribution of questionna...

this study is based upon a field work in the turkmen sahara region. it explores one of the indigenous healing methods called ishani taken by the turkmen women. there are different methods of healing among turkmen such as porkhani, damartotan, but ishani is one of the most amazing cultural phenomena grown in the turkmen culture. the root of this healing method is based upon the central asian cul...

the research carried out the length-length relationships (llr), length-weight relationship (lwr) and condition factor of nine freshwater small indigenous species viz. g. giuris, e . danricus, m . pancalus , l . guntea, c. fasciatus, p. sophore, h .  fossilis, c .   punctatus and m. cavasius from the waterbodies of nageshwari, bangladesh. relationships among different body lenght parameters of e...

although cardiovascular disease (cvd) is typically associated with middle- or old-age, the atherosclerotic process often initiates early in childhood and is occurring at an increasing rate. there is a consensus that changes in life-style have driven the current epidemic. adverse changes in physical activity, nutrition, and sleep behavior have been strongly linked to the development of a host of...

The extent to which Indigenous Australians suffer violent victimisation has been widely reported elsewhere and will not be examined in detail here. For the purposes of this paper, it is sufficient to note that overall, Indigenous people experience violence (as offenders and victims) at rates that are typically two to five times those experienced by non-Indigenous people and this can be much hig...

Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indigenous people prefer to work on a small scale. This cultural factor developed during the colonial period and remains a part of current indigenous culture. To test the hypothesis, I elaborate...

This study surveyed the dental health of three Costa Rican indigenous populations and two rural, non-indigenous communities. Sixty-six individuals, both children and adults, were interviewed regarding dental hygiene practices and the dentition of eighty-eight children from the ages of two to thirteen was examined. The indigenous populations, on average, showed a more important number of anterio...

Collecting information in surveys on family and community life is always a challenge but is particularly difficult for some sections of the Indigenous population. This is in part because of the lack of congruence between the kinship terminology and concepts of local kin systems and those of the mainstream Anglo-Celtic system for many ‘tradition-orientated’ Indigenous people. 1 It is also a resu...