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Organisation

Lowitja Institute

Report

Chronic condition management strategies in Aboriginal communities

Peter Harvey, Malcolm Battersby, Bev McCurry, Russell Carbine, Jenny Boyd, Oscar Abdulla

This is the final report of a project intended to evaluate, and where possible develop and demonstrate effective and transferable chronic condition management strategies, and to generate research evidence about their processes, impacts and health outcomes. This project provides strong qualitative and quantitative evidence that people involved in structured chronic condition management strategies (eg care...
Report

Taking care of business: Corporate services for indigenous primary health care services


The project examined the corporate support needs of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, the issues associated with obtaining appropriate support and existing support structures used by these services. The key research questions were: what is the nature (scope and characteristics) of the support needs of ACCHSs as corporate entities, taking into account differential organisational capacity...
Report

Improving the identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in mainstream general practice

Dr Anne Parkhill, Dr Jenny Lawlor, Ms Lexine Solomon, Ms Angela Scotney, Mr Ray Mahoney, Dr Karen Adams, Associate Professor Jane Freemantle.

This report provides recommendations on how GPs can help Close the Gap. Better identification of Indigenous patients in general practices would improve their access to Medicare benefits such as health checks that could help ‘Close the Gap’, yet many GPs don’t consider ethnicity to be relevant to quality of care, according to a study from...
Discussion paper

Aboriginal spirituality: Aboriginal philosophy, the basis of Aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing


This discussion paper argues for the centrality of Aboriginal Spirituality in the practice of social and emotional wellbeing and for applications in all areas of Aboriginal development.
Report

Living on the edge: social and emotional wellbeing risk and protective factors for serious psychological distress among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Belle Glaskin

This paper has been prepared by the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA) to generate discussion around the determinants of Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB), and to provide a range of recommendations for addressing the current gap in social and emotional wellbeing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The paper concludes with a number of recommendations...