HOT NORTH promotes a number of activities that promote the improvement of health outcomes across the tropical north of Australia. The first three years of funding has provided for the establishment of 97 pilot/translation projects and funded individual fellowships, scholarships, and Indigenous Development and Training Awards for researchers and health professionals. The funded researchers have formed collaborations…
The Communicate study – Stage 2
Many Aboriginal patients at Royal Darwin Hospital speak a language other than English at home, ...
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A student-led service model to improve the health and wellbeing of older adults in East Arnhem
Older persons from remote Aboriginal communities experience disabling consequences of chronic diseases at a disproportionally ...
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The impact of a health information campaign to improve timely health seeking of families of Aboriginal children with chronic wet cough in the Kimberley
Background: Bronchiectasis and its precursor, chronic suppurative lung disease (CSLD) are prevalent in the Aboriginal ...
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Consultation to translation: Evaluation of an environmental health video to promote the role of environmental health activities for healthy skin
Environmental health activities are key activities in the prevention of skin infections. Skin infections are ...
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Paving the path to accessible health care for Indigenous adolescents: Understanding the health priorities and needs of Indigenous adolescents, and how these needs can be met by primary health care
Adolescents (aged 10 -24 years)1 represent a third of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
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Cooking smoke and indoor air pollution: Impaired immunity to tuberculosis at Australia’s northern border?
PNG has some of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) in our region, with drug ...
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