scholarly journals Impact of remote prenatal education on program participation and breastfeeding of women in rural and remote Indigenous communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 100851
Author(s):  
Amy Hui ◽  
Wanda Philips-Beck ◽  
Rhonda Campbell ◽  
Stephanie Sinclair ◽  
Connie Kuzdak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Prenatal Education ◽  
Rural And Remote

scholarly journals Smart Indigenous Youth: The Smart Platform Policy Solution for Systems Integration to Address Indigenous Youth Mental Health

10.2196/21155 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. e21155
Author(s):  
Tarun Reddy Katapally
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
School Curricula

Indigenous youth mental health is an urgent public health issue, which cannot be addressed with a one-size-fits-all approach. The success of health policies in Indigenous communities is dependent on bottom-up, culturally appropriate, and strengths-based prevention strategies. In order to maximize the effectiveness of these strategies, they need to be embedded in replicable and contextually relevant mechanisms such as school curricula across multiple communities. Moreover, to engage youth in the twenty-first century, especially in rural and remote areas, it is imperative to leverage ubiquitous mobile tools that empower Indigenous youth and facilitate novel Two-Eyed Seeing solutions. Smart Indigenous Youth is a 5-year community trial, which aims to improve Indigenous youth mental health by embedding a culturally appropriate digital health initiative into school curricula in rural and remote Indigenous communities in Canada. This policy analysis explores the benefits of such upstream initiatives. More importantly, this article describes evidence-based strategies to overcome barriers to implementation through the integration of citizen science and community-based participatory research action.

scholarly journals Understanding the Roles of Remoteness and Indigenous Status in Rural and Remote Road Trauma in North Queensland: Using a Mixed-Methods Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Edmonston ◽  
Victor Siskind ◽  
Mary Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Indigenous Status ◽  
Traffic Crash ◽  
Vehicle Controllers ◽  
Significant Health ◽  
Alcohol Dependent ◽  
Transport Disadvantage

Road trauma is a significant health problem in rural and remote regions of Australia, particularly for Indigenous communities. This study aims to identify and compare the circumstances leading to (proximal causation) and social determinants of (distal causation) crashes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in these regions and their relation to remoteness. This is a topic seriously under-researched in Australia. Modelled on an earlier study, 229 persons injured in crashes were recruited from local health facilities in rural and remote North Queensland and interviewed, mainly by telephone, according to a fixed protocol which included a detailed narrative of the circumstances of the crash. A qualitative analysis of these narratives identified several core themes, further explored statistically in this sample, supplemented by participants in the earlier study with compatible questionnaire data, designed to determine which factors were more closely associated with Indigenous status and which with remoteness. Indigenous participants were less often vehicle controllers, more likely to have recently been a drink driver or passenger thereof; to be unemployed, unlicensed, distracted or fatigued before the crash, alcohol dependent and have lower perceived social, but not personal, locus of control in a traffic crash than non-Indigenous persons. Differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants are largely ascribable to hardship and transport disadvantage due to lack of access to licensing and associated limitations on employment opportunities. Based on these findings, a number of policy recommendations relating to educational, enforcement and engineering issues have been made.

Learning Preferences and Impacts of Education Programs in Dog Health Programs in Five Rural and Remote Australian Indigenous Communities

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 48-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Constable ◽  
Roselyn Dixon ◽  
Robert Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Condition Score ◽  
Average Condition

As part of strategies to improve dog and community health in rural and remote Indigenous communities, this study investigated preferences and impacts of dog health education programs. Semistructured interviews with 63 residents from five communities explored learning preferences. Though each community differed, on average yarning was preferred by most (68.4%) respondents, followed by visual (65.0%) and practical learning (46.9%). Text-based and computer/screen-based learning were important to 16.2% and 14.6% of respondents respectively. With paper-based visual and text resources, respondents reported a preference for locally made (28/36 or 78%) over mainstream resources. Twenty eight residents involved in the creation of locally made resources reported satisfaction, knowledge exchange, and displayed enthusiasm for the process. Colour resources were more successful than black and white resources or word of mouth in terms of program advertising, alerting 67% (10/15) of respondents compared to 6% to 24% for programs using word of mouth. Dog health programs that incorporated education programs based on these identified preferences achieved significantly better results in terms of improvements in mange prevalence and average condition score, partly through increased community understanding and engagement with the program. Thus, culturally appropriate and locally relevant education programs can significantly improve the success of dog health programs.

Cancer among people living in rural and remote Indigenous communities in Queensland

2000 ◽  
Vol 173 (6) ◽  
pp. 301-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Coory ◽  
Alison Thompson ◽  
Indranl Ganguly
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Rural And Remote

scholarly journals Indigenous Students and Mathematics: Teachers’ Perceptions of the Role of Teacher Aides

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Warren ◽  
Tom J. Cooper ◽  
Annette Baturo
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Teacher Aide ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Teacher Aides ◽  
And Mathematics

AbstractThis study examined teachers’ perceptions of the role of teacher aides in mathematics classrooms in rural and remote Indigenous communities. Twelve teachers from three schools in rural and remote Queensland participated in the study. The results from the first year of the project indicated that there were differences in how these teachers worked with their teacher aides, particularly the specific roles assigned to them in the mathematics classroom, with non-Indigenous teacher aides being given greater responsibilities for student learning and Indigenous teacher aides for behavioural management. As a result of teacher aide in-service on mathematics learning, teachers’ perception of the Indigenous teacher aides changed, resulting in each being given greater responsibility for student learning.

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