Content tagged with Health
QUT to co-convene AIATSIS National Indigenous Research Conference 2019
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is pleased to announce that it will be co-convening the...
News - 23 Nov 2018
Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 1, 2017
Abstracts Photoyarn: Aboriginal and Mãori girls’ researching contemporary boarding school experiences — Jessa Rogers Abstract: Few studies...
Publication or resource - 9 Jul 2018
Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 2, 2016
Abstracts When you sleep on park bench, you sleep with your ears open and one eye open: Australian Aboriginal people’s experience of homelessness...
Publication or resource - 6 Jul 2018
Community-level built environmental factors related to chronic and infectious diseases: strengthening evidence base for remote Indigenous communities
High prevalence of preventable chronic and infectious diseases in the Indigenous population is a major public health concern. Existing research has...
Presentation - 13 Jul 2017
‘Culture is a health asset’: how and why we need to measure the cultural determinants of health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Unlike the economic and social determinants of health, cultural determinants of health and wellbeing are an emerging concept in research. On an...
Presentation - 10 Jul 2017
How does data impact on health policy and health outcomes?
Bin Tong is an epidemiologist and bio-statistician at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. She has been working as a Project Manager and...
Presentation - 10 Jul 2017
Re-focussing qualitative research: perspectives of health services researchers
Little is known about Focus group discussion (FGD) methods in Aboriginal health services research. The Re-Focus study explores the experiences of...
Presentation - 10 Jul 2017
Koolark koort koorliny: reconciliation, art and storytelling in an Australian Aboriginal community
In Nyungar Country, in the south-west corner of Western Australia, reconciliation has taken a significant step forward as the whole community expe...
News - 20 Jun 2017
Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 1, 2016
Abstracts Homelessness, homelands, human rights — Anita Heiss This paper is an edited version of the Human Rights Oration presented at the...
Publication or resource - 4 Jul 2016
What's new in the ABS' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistical Program?
This seminar details the recent developments and future directions of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Presentation - 10 Sep 2015
AIATSIS What's new in the ABS' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistical Program
SU MAHARAJ Good morning, I’m Su Maharaj and this is my colleague Mary Jackson. We’re from NCATSISS. Before we begin today, I would like to...
Video - 10 Sep 2015
What's new in the ABS' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistical Program?
This seminar details the recent developments and future directions of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Presentation - 2 Sep 2015
Our future, Yarrabah way
Yarrabah is a discrete north Queensland community of 2409 residents; although current attending clients at the health centre far...
Presentation - 18 Aug 2015
Language revitalisation on the agenda in Inner Mongolia
Dr Marmion with a singer of traditional Mongolian ‘throat-singing’ (or khoomei) receiving a free lesson. Dr Doug Marmion, Research Fellow,...
News - 23 Jul 2015
Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 1, 2015
Abstracts for Issue 1, 2015 Cultural strength: restoring the place of indigenous knowledge in practice and policy Taiaiake Alfred Indigenous...
Publication or resource - 21 Jul 2015
Somebody Now: The autobiography of Ellie Gaffney, a woman of the Torres Strait
Ellie Gaffney’s thirst for knowledge, her determination to succeed and her desire to help her people, shine through these pages as she tells the...
Publication or resource - 28 May 2015
Indigenous health and wellbeing: The importance of country
A key aspect to improving Indigenous wellbeing is exploring the relationship between land and wellbeing. Evidence exists that suggests there are...
Publication or resource - 24 Feb 2015
Urban health: Strengthening our voice, culture and partnerships
The purpose of the 2009 AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference Perspectives on Urban Life: Connections and reconnections was to...
Publication or resource - 17 Feb 2015
Transnational Collaborating Group on Aboriginal Boy’s and Men’s Health
This project examines ways that the Canadian Institute of Gender and Health and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Research project - 17 Feb 2015
Supportive care for Indigenous males in community
The project examines the role of Indigenous cancer survivors in improving cancer awareness and outcomes for Indigenous cancer patients. The...
Research project - 17 Feb 2015