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Improving Access To Primary Care For Aboriginal Babies In Western Australia: Study Protocol For A Randomized Controlled Trial, Dan Mcaullay, Kimberley Mcauley, Rhonda Marriott, Glenn Pearson, Peter Jacoby, Chantal Ferguson, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Juli Coffin, Charmaine Green, Selina Sibosado, Barbara Henry, Dorota Doherty, Karen Edmond Jan 2016

Improving Access To Primary Care For Aboriginal Babies In Western Australia: Study Protocol For A Randomized Controlled Trial, Dan Mcaullay, Kimberley Mcauley, Rhonda Marriott, Glenn Pearson, Peter Jacoby, Chantal Ferguson, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Juli Coffin, Charmaine Green, Selina Sibosado, Barbara Henry, Dorota Doherty, Karen Edmond

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Background:

Despite a decade of substantial investments in programs to improve access to primary care for Aboriginal mothers and infants, more than 50 % of Western Australian Aboriginal babies are still not receiving primary and preventative care in the early months of life. Western Australian hospitals now input birth data into the Western Australian electronic clinical management system within 48 hours of birth. However, difficulties have arisen in ensuring that the appropriate primary care providers receive birth notification and clinical information by the time babies are discharged from the hospital. No consistent process exists to ensure that choices about primary …


Lower Than Expected Morbidity And Mortality For An Australian Aboriginal Population: 10-Year Follow-Up In A Decentralised Community, Kevin G. Rowley, Kerin O'Dea, Ian Anderson, Robyn Mcdermott, Karmananda Saraswati, Ricky Tilmouth, Iris Roberts, Joseph Fitz, Zaimin Wang, Alicia Jenkins, James D. Best, Zhiqiang Wang, Alex Brown Mar 2008

Lower Than Expected Morbidity And Mortality For An Australian Aboriginal Population: 10-Year Follow-Up In A Decentralised Community, Kevin G. Rowley, Kerin O'Dea, Ian Anderson, Robyn Mcdermott, Karmananda Saraswati, Ricky Tilmouth, Iris Roberts, Joseph Fitz, Zaimin Wang, Alicia Jenkins, James D. Best, Zhiqiang Wang, Alex Brown

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Objective: Toexaminemortalityfromallcausesandfromcardiovasculardisease(CVD), and CVD hospitalisation rate for a decentralised Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. Design and participants: For a community-based cohort of 296 people aged 15 years or older screened in 1995, we reviewed hospital and primary health care records and death certificates for the period up to December 2004 (2800 person-years of follow-up). Mainoutcomemeasures: MortalityfromallcausesandCVD,andhospitalisationwith CVD coded as a primary cause of admission; comparison with prior trends (1988 to 1995) in CVD risk factor prevalence for the community, and with NT-specific Indigenous mortality and hospitalisation rates.

Results: Mortality in the cohort was 964/100 000 person-years, significantly lower than …