Aboriginal women and health
Clearinghouse Connector – July 2012
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Overview
The health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: a snapshot 2004-05 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s health strategy Australian Women’s Health Network, 2010
Summary of indigenous women’s health Indigenous Australians HealthInfoNet, 2010
Reempowering ourselves: Australian Aboriginal women Signs: Journal of Women in Curlture and Society, 2010
Working collaboratively to improve Aboriginal women’s health
Can we better meet the healthcare needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women? Medical Journal of Australia, 2002
Moving forward together in Aboriginal women’s health: a participatory action research… Flinders University, 2008
Finding my ground in public health research: lessons from my grandmother’s kitchen BMC Public Health, 2011
Antenatal care
What do Aboriginal women think is good antenatal care?: consultation report Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, 2009
Cancer
Exposed: a literature review of the issues of women’s cancers in Australian Indigenous communities Women’s Health Goulburn North East, 2010
Study of breast cancer screening characteristics and breast cancer survival in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women of Australia Cancer Australia, 2012
Breast and cervical cancer in indigenous women: overcoming barriers to early detection Australian Family Physician, 2008
Nutrition
Family food work: lessons learned from urban Aboriginal women about nutrition promotion Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2010
Smoking
Goreen narrkwarren ngrn-toura: healthy family air… Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO), 2010
Knowledge, attitudes and other factors associated with assessment of tobacco smoking among pregnant Aboriginal women by health care providers BMC Public Health, 2012
Related websites
Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
The Royal Women’s Hospital (Melbourne)
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Australia. Department of Health and Ageing. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
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