Managing and Interpreting Data
Health research data
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Indigenous data, health, housing, community services and housing sectors
- International Group for Indigenous Health Measurement 2006, Canberra - how countries identify, collect and count data on their Indigenous populations
- National Best Practice Guidelines for Collecting Indigenous Status in Health Data Sets - Australian Institute for Health and Welfare, 2010
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Data Principles - National Advisory Group on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Information and Data, 2006
Informed consent
The principle of free prior informed consent is explained in this short information sheet:
Consent form templates
Research consent forms recognise prior informed consent. Participants sign an agreement that sets out terms and conditions and states that informed consent is given freely. Some templates are:
- AH&MRC Ethics Committee model consent form (2008) - download from the Ethics Committee page of the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Countil of New South Wales website
- AIATSIS Human Research Ethics Committee Informed Consent menu and template for a plain English research statement - from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Working with an Indigenous language interpreter
- Guidelines to Determine if an Aboriginal Interpreter is Required NT Aboriginal Interpreter Service
- Useful Hints on Working with an Aboriginal Language Interpreter NT Aboriginal Interpreter Service
- How to work with Aboriginal interpreters Kimberley Interpreting Service
- ‘Working with interpreters’, Sharing the true stories: improving communication in Indigenous health care from the Sharing the True Stories website
Go to Chapter 9 of Researching Indigenous Health for more information on managing data.
Created 10 Jul 2011, updated 18 Oct 2011