A5064544882- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Community Health and Development
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Facial Trauma and Fracture Management
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
Menzies School of Health Research
2013-2023
The University of Queensland
2003-2023
Charles Darwin University
2004-2012
James Cook University
2003-2008
Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine
2003-2006
Australian National University
2004
La Trobe University
2004
Curtin University
2004
Queensland Health
2002-2003
Introduction The Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol were released in 2020 by the National Health and Medical Research Council. Based on latest evidence, provide advice how keep risk of harm low. They refer an standard drink (10 g ethanol). Recommendations: • Guideline 1: To alcohol-related disease or injury, healthy men women should no more than ten drinks a week four any one day. less you drink, lower your alcohol. 2: injury other harms health, children...
Objective: To assess the effect of employing Aboriginal health workers (AHWs) on delivery diabetes care in remote community centres, and to identify barriers related AHWs' involvement other chronic illness care. Design, setting participants: Three-year follow-up study 137 people with type 2 seven centres Northern Territory. Main outcome measures: Delivery guideline-scheduled services; intermediate outcomes (glycated haemoglobin [HbA1c] blood pressure levels); number sex AHWs at over time;...
Abstract Aims To examine the temporal association between experience of different types intimate partner violence (IPV) in early adulthood (21 years) and substance use disorders young (30 years). Design Prospective birth cohort study using data from Mater‐University Queensland Study Pregnancy (MUSP). Setting Brisbane, Australia. Participants A total 1353 people (822 females 531 males). Measurements IPV was measured Composite Abuse Scale (CAS) alcohol, nicotine were assessed International...
Although much available research indicates that intimate partner violence (IPV) is male perpetrated, growing recent evidence suggests a gender symmetry model of family violence. This article examines differences in IPV current and prior relationships reported by young adults. Data comprised 2,060 adults (62.1% females) who participated the 30-year follow-up Mater Hospital University Queensland Study Pregnancy (MUSP) Brisbane, Australia. The Composite Abuse Scale was used to measure during...
To identify barriers faced by Aboriginal people from remote communities in the Northern Territory (NT) when accessing hospital-based specialist medical services, and to evaluate impact of Specialist Outreach Service (SOS) on these barriers.
A recent rise in cannabis use Indigenous communities northern Australia may have compounded existing patterns of other substance use. This paper describes these Arnhem Land the 'Top End' Northern Territory (NT). Economic impacts trade are also described. In a descriptive cross-sectional study, random samples included 336 people (169 males, 167 females) aged 13 - 36 years. Consensus classification lifetime and current cannabis, alcohol, tobacco, kava, inhalants (petrol) drugs was derived...
To examine the trends in processes of diabetes care and participant outcomes after an intervention two remote regions Australia.
Few studies describe cannabis use in indigenous populations, and no longitudinal are available Australia. We conducted 3-year follow-up interviews assessments Aboriginal communities Arnhem Land (Northern Territory, NT).
Abstract Petrol sniffing and use of other drugs were examined among 48 males aged 13–32 years resident in a remote Aboriginal community Arnhem Land. The study group consisted 13 non‐sniffers, ex‐sniffers 22 current sniffers. Unemployment was highest those with history petrol sniffing. Employment family influence emerged as major reported reasons for individuals stopping findings the suggest that strategies to reduce should not only focus on education, employment, skills training recreation,...
To achieve a better understanding of the perspectives and needs Indigenous people with diabetes in Torres Strait to identify ways promote successful self-management diabetes.
Abstract High risk drinking is linked with high rates of physical harm. The reported incidence alcohol - related trauma among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Northern Territory highest world. Facial fractures are common young Islanders. They often misuse frequently secondary to assault. This review focuses on alcohol-related draws attention an urgent need for preventative health approach address this critical issue.
Objective: We investigated adverse mental health effects and their associations with levels of cannabis use among indigenous Australian users in remote communities the Northern Territory.Method: Local workers key informants assisted developing 28 criteria describing symptoms. Five symptom clusters were identified using cluster analysis data compiled from interviews 103 users. Agreement was assessed (method comparison approach, κ-statistic) a clinician's classification into five groups...
We evaluate a method to describe changing substance use patterns in northern Australia's remote Aboriginal communities (Arnhem Land, Northern Territory). Substance was assessed random samples two A (n = 194) and B 176). Five health workers made assessments independently of each other community A. different group three independent B. Sub-samples were opportunistically recruited for interview (community A, n 77; B, 55). In C, 101 people interviewed also by four local working together....
This article traces the evolution of alcohol policy in Northern Territory, Australia, over past half century, from removal prohibition on possession and consumption by Aboriginal people, to emergence spatially-defined restrictions which, while not overtly referring Aborigines, are designed primarily contain public drinkers. alcohol-related problems, which serious broad-ranging, continue be defined for purposes non-Aboriginal people terms drunkenness perceived threats urban amenity....