Indigenous Statistics

Factors contributing to longer length of stay in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children hospitalised for burn injury

“…BRANZ captures data from reporting hospitals only (generalist hospitals are not included) and not all hospitals have been reporting for the same length of time. BRANZ is a western biomedically constructed, epidemiological repository where colonial constraints and whiteness are present and unacknowledged (Kukutai and Taylor 2016 ; Walter and Andersen 2013 ). Under-identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is not unusual in registries of this type (Möller et al 2017 ; Randall et al 2013 ).…”

“…We therefore employed decolonising and knowledge interface methodologies in this study (Supplementary File 1 – Fig. A) (Kukutai and Taylor 2016 ; Walter and Andersen 2013 ; Martin 2003 ; Sherwood 2013 ; Sherwood and Edwards 2006 ). Indigenous knowledges were important for the overall study conceptualisation (variable selection, statistical analyses, results interpretation) and the first author drew on their own lived experience as an Aboriginal woman, and engaged in yarning and yuri ingarninthii 1 processes with other experts (Aboriginal Public Health Physician A/Prof Tamara Mackean), Registered Aboriginal Health Practitioner specialised in burns (Kurt Towers) to strengthen this process (Supplementary File 1 - Fig.…”

An Australian model of the First 1000 Days: an Indigenous-led process to turn an international initiative into an early-life strategy benefiting indigenous families

“…To show the impacts of the First 1000 Days Australia on Indigenous families, an evidence base that embeds culture and an Indigenous perspective on health and wellbeing is being established in the form of an Indigenous led Longitudinal Study starting in families during the pre-conception. As far as we are aware, the proposed longitudinal study will be the first Australian Indigenous led cohort study to address and describe the vulnerabilities as well as the protective factors of Indigenous families across multiple settings [ 22 , 78 – 80 ] that will equally value the biomedical paradigm of health research and Indigenous knowledges and methodologies [ 39 , 59 ]. Likely indicators will include measures of wellbeing (such as identity, culture, community, individual and family) and clinical and biological indicators of growth, stress and early markers of disease, but further details and success-based outcomes are currently being developed with further engagement with Indigenous stakeholders and academic partners.…”

“…Led by Indigenous scholars at the University of Melbourne the engagement process employed Indigenous methodologies that centralised culture and wellbeing to the health Indigenous peoples, and guided the development of a vision and strategy for our own model – First 1000 Days Australia [ 39 – 43 ]. The process was akin to the collective impact framework [ 44 ] to achieve large-scale progress against urgent and complex problems of our time.…”

‘Work it out’: evaluation of a chronic condition self-management program for urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with or at risk of cardiovascular disease

“…A secondary outcome of this research was to explore factors that may have influenced positive changes in these clinical outcome measures, to provide a quantitative understanding about elements which may contribute to the Work It Out participant’s overall wellbeing. This method was specifically chosen as there is a pressing identified need to ensure research questions are developed in a culturally competent manner, considering methods that move away from a narrative of deficit and disadvantage, and instead, seek to empower wellness within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities [ 26 , 30 , 31 ].…”