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Here’s where we could lift our game to ensure reliable, equitable and culturally safe telehealth for First Nations people in Australia, whether living remotely or in our cities.
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder can cause problems with movement, behaviour or learning or a mix of these. In communities where alcohol use is high, a focus on FASD is warranted.
Higher levels of parental wellbeing while children were young was linked with children being more physically active as they got older.
Health and service workers are not asking women about a potential traumatic brain injury, there’s a lack of referral options, and often no diagnosis.
Caregivers of children with ear disease said they’d noticed them talking loudly, turning up the TV or devices, being distracted, talking in class, ‘not listening’ or not responding.
NT residents receive approximately 30% less Medicare funding per capita than the national average. The gap is worse for First Nations Australians in the NT.
Birthing on Country services acknowledge First Nation peoples’ continued ownership of land and unique birthing practices.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Skin Health, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Associate Professor and Senior Fellow, Yardhura Walani, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, Australian National University
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Social Scientist and Aboriginal Senior Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Chancellor, University of Canberra
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Team Lead, Healthy Skin and Acute Rheumatic Fever Prevention, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Associate Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Yardhura Walani, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, Australian National University
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Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Indigenous Advancement, Curtin University
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing; Professor, School of Disability Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Aboriginal Research Officer, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Researcher, Flinders University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Public Health, The University of Queensland