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Australian Industrial Transformation Institute
AITI is a trans-disciplinary research venture, bringing social scientists, scientists and engineers together to work collaboratively with industry, government and communities. -
Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer
The Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (FCIC) is a leading cancer centre in Australia, housing world-class care and survivorship services alongside innovative cancer prevention and early intervention research. -
Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research
The Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research aims to improve outcomes for patients with blinding eye conditions affecting our community.. -
Flinders Digital Health Research Centre
The Flinders Digital Health Research Centre is a multidisciplinary research entity, established as a cornerstone in Flinders University’s expansion in the health technology domain. -
Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities
Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities unites humanities-based researchers engaged in creative and reflective investigations of culture and thought. -
Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity
The Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity leads high quality scholarship on the social and economic determinants of health and health equity.
Recent Submissions
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Reducing Smoking Among People With Schizophrenia: Perspectives on Priorities for Advancing Research
(Frontiers, 2018-12-18)Although tobacco smoking is very common among people with schizophrenia and has devastating effects on health, strategies to ameliorate the risk are lacking. Some studies have reported promising results yet quit rates are ... -
Genetic polymorphism of the methotrexate transporter ABCG2, blood pressure and markers of arterial function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: repeated cross-sectional study
(Dove Press, 2018-11-12)Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) treatment is associated with lower blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We investigated associations between single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the ... -
Prevalence and type of artefact with spectral domain optical coherence tomography macular ganglion cell imaging in glaucoma surveillance
(Public Library of Science, 2018-12-05)Purpose The ganglion cell analysis (GCA) of the CIRRUSTM HD-OCT (Carl Zeiss, Meditec; Dublin, CA) provides measurement of the macular ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) thickness. This study determined the ... -
Burn injury models of care: A review of quality and cultural safety for care of Indigenous children
(Elsevier, 2017-11-27)Safety and quality in the systematic management of burn care is important to ensure optimal outcomes. It is not clear if or how burn injury models of care uphold these qualities, or if they provide a space for culturally ... -
Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Measure Attitude change in Health Professionals after Completion of an Aboriginal Health and Cultural Safety Training Programme
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-12-11)Socially accountable health curricula, designed to decrease Aboriginal health inequities through the transformation of health professional students into culturally safe practitioners, has become a focal point for health ... -
‘Yarning up with Koori kids’ – hearing the voices of Australian urban Indigenous children about their health and well-being
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-10-21)Objective: Australian Indigenous children experience some of the most substantial health inequalities globally. In this context, research regarding their health and well-being has overemphasised physical illnesses with ... -
Hybrid cultures: creating a third space in Aboriginal healthcare
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Understanding burn injuries in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: protocol for a prospective cohort study
(BMJ Publishing group, 2015-10-13)Introduction Although Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia have higher risk of burns compared with non-Aboriginal children, their access to burn care, particularly postdischarge care, is poorly ... -
Working at the interface in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: focussing on the individual health professional and their organisation as a means to address health equity
(BioMed Central, 2016-11-17)Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience inequity in health outcomes in Australia. Health care interactions are an important starting place to seek to address this inequity. The majority of ... -
Use of telehealth for health care of Indigenous peoples with chronic conditions: a systematic review
(James Cook University, 2017-09-20)Introduction: Telehealth may be a cost effective modality in healthcare delivery, but how well used or how appropriate it is for the care of Indigenous peoples is unclear. This review examines the evidence for telehealth ... -
Policy environments and job loss: Lived experience of retrenched Australian automotive workers
(Sage Journals, 2012-09-06)Job loss has negative consequences for health and evidence shows that the agency of workers experiencing job loss is affected by labour market and welfare policy. The policy environment into which workers emerge after ... -
Exploring Social Capital: as Concept and Practice in Australian Public Health Policies and Programs
(Wiley, 2014-04-09)Over the past twenty years interest has grown in the concept of social capital in international and Australian public policy. We explore how social capital is understood as a concept and used in practice for guiding policy ... -
Social mix and the role of design: Competing interests in the Carlton Public Housing Estate Redevelopment, Melbourne
(Elsevier, 2014-05-08)The social mix policy approach has become a common reaction to the multiple-disadvantage increasingly present in public housing estates in western cities. This approach and its social effects on socially-mixed communities ... -
Inequalities in social capital and health between people with and without disabilities
(Elsevier, 2014-12-04)The poor mental and physical health of people with disabilities has been well documented and there is evidence to suggest that inequalities in health between people with and without disabilities may be at least partly ... -
Public housing renewal and social determinants of health
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-08-11)This article draws on the concept of residential context of housing and its relationship to health. It considers a bundle of changes through implementation of a housing renewal initiative as part of the Carlton Housing ... -
Support for tenure mix by residents local to the Carlton Housing Estate, Melbourne, Australia
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-07-14)In this paper, we report on the level of support for tenure mix policies of residents living proximate to the Carlton Housing Estate mixed tenure redevelopment in Melbourne Australia. In a telephone survey of 200 residents ... -
Australian Aboriginal Urban Residents’ Satisfaction with Living in Their Neighbourhood: Perceptions of the Neighbourhood Socio-cultural Environment and Individual Socio-demographic Factors
(Sage Journals, 2011-12-19)This paper draws on survey data from 143 Aboriginal participants living in Adelaide, South Australia, to examine factors associated with Australian Aboriginal urban residents’ satisfaction with living in their neighbourhoods. ... -
Exploring the Relationship between Housing and Health for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Australia: A Qualitative Study
(MDPI, 2017-09-08)Housing is an important social determinant of health; however, little is known about the impact of housing experiences on health and wellbeing for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. In this paper, we outline ... -
Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce health inequities
(Wiley, 2014-02-15)Increasing rates of chronic conditions have resulted in governments targeting health behaviour such as smoking, eating high‐fat diets, or physical inactivity known to increase risk for these conditions. In the process, ... -
Evaluation of Health in All Policies: concept, theory and application
(Oxford University Press, 2014-06-01)This article describes some of the crucial theoretical, methodological and practical issues that need to be considered when evaluating Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiatives. The approaches that have been applied to ...
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