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While death rates from heart and kidney disease have dropped among Indigenous people, death rates from cancer are on the rise. from shutterstock.com

February 11, 2018

To close the health gap, we need programs that work. Here are three of them

Neale Cohen, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute; Jonathan Carapetis, The Kids Research Institute Australia, and Sue Kildea, The University of Queensland

Politicians make sweeping statements on how to close the gap. But here’s advice from people working directly with Indigenous communities who have evidence for what actually works.

Inuit women carrying their kids in traditional hooded parkas. Indigenous midwifery programs have expanded across Canada and are linked to excellent health outcomes. Spencer/Flickr

September 20, 2014

Birthing on Country could deliver healthier babies and communities

Sue Kildea, The University of Queensland and Fleur Magick Dennis, Deakin University

Tony Abbott spent most of this week in North East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. In the final of our Abbott in…

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