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A new report from Perth's The Kids for Child Health Research has found a strong link between childhood ear infections and exposure to tobacco smoke.

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The COAG commitment to invest in young Aboriginal children will produce immediate and real community benefits.

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High rates of recurrent infection are a major risk to the health of Aboriginal children and are comparable to those of third world countries.

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Dr Michael Wright remembers the 'aha' moment while working with distressed Nyoongar families to identify what was limiting engagement with services.

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Some of the nation’s leading medical researchers will converge on Darwin this week to step out a plan to wipe out rheumatic heart disease.

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Vinka Barunga has made history by becoming the first Aboriginal doctor from Derby and she's also added The Kids researcher to her list of achievements.

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A good healthy breakfast is not just a vital foundation for a productive day but can lay the groundwork for a community to pull together to overhaul its health.

Research

The emerging literature on desistance (and recovery from addictions) has focused on key life-course transitions that can be characterised as the need for jobs (meaningful activities), friends (transitioning to pro-social) and houses (a home free from threat). The term ‘recovery capital’ is used to characterise personal, social and community resources an individual can draw upon to support their recovery, partly bridging agentic (personal) and structural (community) factors.

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In Australia’s north, Aboriginal peoples live with world-high rates of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and its precursor, acute rheumatic fever (ARF); driven by social and environmental determinants of health. We undertook a program of work to strengthen RHD primordial and primary prevention using a model addressing six domains: housing and environmental support, community awareness and empowerment, health literacy, health and education service integration, health navigation and health provider education.

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Despite higher incidence of brain injury among Aboriginal compared with non-Aboriginal Australians, suboptimal engagement exists between rehabilitation services and Aboriginal brain injury survivors. Aboriginal patients often feel culturally insecure in hospital and navigation of services post discharge is complex.