Health Conditions

Models of community care for children’s eye heath

Ngaaminya Project: A First Nations-led project mapping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community expectations of good eye health for children 

This project will contribute to a broader strategy of building Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determined models of care where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…

Stolen Generation Survivors’ and their descendants’ health and wellbeing

Exploring the health and wellbeing needs of Stolen Generations and their descendants in South Australia

This project is a foundational piece of research to examine what evidence exists in relation to the health and wellbeing of Stolen Generations and their…

Measuring the burden of iron deficiency in Aboriginal children under five years

Prevention, early detection and management of iron deficiency in children under 5 years at an ACCHO in far-western NSW

This study will measure the current burden of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in Maari Ma’s under-five-years Aboriginal population in Broken Hill and Wilcannia,…

Empowering Aboriginal students to make healthy choices and improve their overall wellbeing 

Evaluating the pilot Healthy Deadly Kids Program designed by the Illawarra Aboriginal Medical Service 

This project evaluates the pilot of the IAMS' Healthy Deadly Kids (HDK) program, a culturally safe school-based health education initiative designed to improve the health…

Empowering Indigenous strengths to better health and wellbeing

The co-design and evaluation of a sustainable practice nurse health and wellbeing funding model for chronic disease management at a rural Aboriginal Health Service

This project proposed an Indigenous-led, community co-design and evaluation of a sustainable Practice Nurse-Model of Care (PN-MoC) for chronic disease management at a rural Aboriginal…

Supporting developmentally vulnerable children

Optimising the integration of best evidence screening for childhood neurodevelopmental disability into routine clinical care

This project facilitated the uptake of best-evidence screening for childhood neurodevelopmental disabilities into the routine delivery of Danila Dilba’s primary health services. Overall the research…

Indigenous genomic health research roundtable

Expanding our tools to Close the Gap: Towards Indigenous genomic health research roundtables July 2011, Melbourne The Lowitja Institute facilitated two roundtables on genetic research…

Disparities in lung cancer care and outcomes in New South Wales

PhD thesis by Kalinda Griffiths – University of Sydney Thesis My thesis, ‘Disparities in lung cancer care and outcomes in New South Wales’, comprises a…

Clinical management of diabetes and alcohol-related health problems

The aim of this project was to meet a need stated by Aboriginal health workers (AHWs) across South Australia for accurate, coordinated processes that produced…

Uptake of evidence to policy: The Indigenous Burden of Disease case study

Uptake of evidence to policy: The Indigenous Burden of Disease case study Using the Indigenous Burden of Disease (BOD) study (Vos, et al. 2009) as…