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Marita Hefler
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“The talking bit of medicine, that’s the most important bit”: doctors and Aboriginal interpreters collaborate to transform culturally competent hospital care
This pilot was part of a larger Participatory Action Research study examining strategies to achieve culturally safe communication at Royal Darwin Hospital.
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Using Facebook to reduce smoking among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a participatory grounded action study
The results from this study suggest that anti-smoking content designed to be shared on social media should complement, rather than attempt to replicate, messages from tobacco control mass media campaigns.
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Successes and unintended consequences of the Northern Territory’s smoke-free prisons policy: results from a process evaluation
In 2013, the Northern Territory was the first Australian jurisdiction to introduce a smoke-free policy for all correctional facilities. This paper reports on a process evaluation to identify what worked well, key challenges and unintended consequences. The researchers interviewed 87 people, comprising remand, medium-security and...