A5084676860- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Sex work and related issues
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
Queensland Health
2010-2011
Health services are fundamental to reducing the burden of blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections (BBV/STI) in Indigenous communities. However, we know very little about young people's use mainstream community-controlled health for prevention treatment these infections, or how can best support efforts prevent infection.
The Indigenous Resilience Project is an Australian community-based participatory research project using qualitative methods to explore young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's views of blood-borne viral sexually transmitted infections (BBV/STI) affecting their communities. In this paper we present analysis narratives from people who had a previous BBV/STI diagnosis how they actively negotiate the experience infection construct classic resilience narrative. We examine two...
ABSTRACT National surveillance data indicate marked differences between Indigenous and other Australians in the prevalence of many sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Young people bear a particularly high burden these infections. A collaboration university researchers, health workers young conducted 45 field interviews to examine how keep themselves healthy protected against STIs. Our findings emphasise complexity behaviours, where individuals are rarely always ‘risky’ or ‘safe’, as well...
Introduction: Mental wellbeing is a growing health issue for Pacific Islands communities (Pasifika), particularly amongst people who have resettled in different country. We explored whether Pasifika living Australia think mental services meet their needs. Methods: ran eight two-hour focus groups with 183 adults Queensland, Australia. There were representatives from the following ethnic groups: Cook Islands, Fiji, Maori, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga. also included...