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…
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Genomics for undiagnosed infectious disease evaluation and diagnosis in northern Australia (GUIDED)
In an increasingly interconnected world, there is a significant risk for the introduction, emergence or ...
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Estimating the prevalence of diabetes diagnosed in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and youth aged <25 years, across northern Australia via an audit of all available primary health care, community-based and hospital-based resources.
This is a project to work out how many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, ...
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Antimicrobial resistance in remote Australia
More and more bacteria are becoming resistant (antimicrobial resistance) to the antibiotics that doctors and ...
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Prevalence of chronic moist cough in Kimberley Aboriginal children
Respiratory illnesses account for 8% of the health-gap in mortality between Aboriginal and other Australians ...
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A prospective study of the aetiology, associations, clinical features and outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia in children and adults in tropical Australia
Pneumonia is common in Australia and often requires admission to hospital. The germs that causes ...
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Immune responses in the neonate exposed to hyperglycaemia in utero
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasingly diagnosed in young Indigenous women (<25 years of age). ...
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