- Hermannsburg waiting for dialysis demountable. 6 promised by Feds , 3 delivered to communities http://bit.ly/7MKXVU
- intervention taskforce member slams Fed Govt for not taking responsibility for Aboriginal health services http://bit.ly/4Akh58
- A community-based program Reduced skin infections in Northern Australian Aboriginal children. Scabies etc the same http://bit.ly/8LApCP
- ABORIGINAL children as young as eight are smoking marijuana. Replacing petrol as drug of choice http://bit.ly/6xIGa0
- Alice Springs is becoming the world’s capital of diabetes. Has one of the highest rates of leg amputations http://bit.ly/6DiN5b
- Why are 3rd World outcomes being delivered to indigenous children in an advanced & prosperous country such as Australia http://bit.ly/4JhJIO
The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.
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If you are in the Red Centre at the end of October this conference would be well worth going to. I may well be there en-route to a few prior engagements.
Date: 30 – 31 October 2009
Location: Crowne Plaza, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Category: Indigenous
Overview
This symposium is being organised by the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institution in conjunction with Alice Springs Hospital and the Northern Territory Department of Health and Families. The objective of this two-day symposium is to provide health care practitioners in the region with the opportunity to learn more about the latest treatments and interventions for people with complex diabetes and to debate the challenges of preventing and effectively managing diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Central Australia.
Some of the topics include:
- a review of epidemiology and public health aspects of diabetes,
- consideration of cardiovascular complications of diabetes, and
- a review of current international trends in screening and diagnosis.
The symposium will contain a half day planning workshop to discuss future care and prevention strategies in diabetes and cardiovascular disease care in remote communities.
Keynote speakers at the symposium will include:
- Dr Stephen Brady – Head, Department of Medicine, Director of Physician Training, Alice Springs Hospital
- Dr Alex Brown – Director for Indigenous Research (CIVDR), Baker IDI
- Dr Christine Connors – Director, Preventable Chronic Disease Program, NT Department of Health & Families
- Professor Sandra Eades – Head, Indigenous Maternal and Child Health Research Programme, Baker IDI
- Professor Garry Jennings AM – Director, Baker IDI
- Associate Professor Jonathan Shaw – Associate Director, Health Services, Baker IDI
- Professor Paul Zimmet AO – Director Emeritus, and Director of International Research, Baker IDI
Registrations are complimentary and can be made via our website at www.bakeridi.edu.au or by contacting the symposium co-ordinator on 1300 728 900
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Australia’s Indigenous population have a much higher incidence of heart disease, diabetes and kidney disease than other Australians and are less likely to receive treatment for these conditions. I have discussed this recently.
The Kanyini Vascular Collaboration is a research project to try and identify barriers to best practice chronic disease management in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to improve their health. I have written extensively about this research trial some time ago and thought it time for a quick update.
The polypill trial is about to enter final planning when we gather in Sydney next week.
There has been a little bit of work published with more on the way. An article has been published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal titled “Addressing inequities in access to quality health care for indigenous people” looking at the inequities and barriers in both a practical and historical context with some comparisons to the problems in delivering a service to the Canadian Aborigine population.
The Heart, Lung and Circulation (Volume 17, Supplement 3, 2008, Page S157) has an article titled “The Identification and Management of Vascular Diseases and Their Risk Factors in Eight Indigenous Primary Health Care Services—The Results of the Kanyini Vascular Collaboration Audit study“. Unfortunately, unless you have access through a library you have to pay for the article.
The Kanyini Vascular Collaboration also produces it’s own newsletter which can be downloaded here (678kb pdf).
I will keep you up to date as the trial progresses.
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