scholarly journals Funding of Northern Territory public hospitals

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Fisher ◽  
Allen Ruben
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Data ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Admission Rates ◽  
Lengths Of Stay ◽  
Land Mass

The Northern Territory is Australia's third largest jurisdiction by land mass but it is the smallest by population. By proportion it accommodates the largest number of Aboriginal people who suffer the greatest burden of disease with highmorbidity, mortality, admission rates and lengths of stay. Output based funding by DRG is based on the 'typical' Australian population which is not that of the Northern Territory. The NT has had to significantly modify its approach to funding to meet the needs of its population. The current funding method based on detailed analyses of clinical data with small numbers may be inappropriate where simpler methods tailored to the NT population could suffice.

A High-Fidelity Model to Predict Length of Stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanix Wang ◽  
Walid Hussain ◽  
John R. Birge ◽  
Michael D. Schreiber ◽  
Daniel Adelman
Keyword(s):  
Length Of Stay ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Clinical Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Operations ◽  
Lengths Of Stay ◽  
Health Trajectories ◽  
Widespread Implementation

Having an interpretable, dynamic length-of-stay model can help hospital administrators and clinicians make better decisions and improve the quality of care. The widespread implementation of electronic medical record (EMR) systems has enabled hospitals to collect massive amounts of health data. However, how to integrate this deluge of data into healthcare operations remains unclear. We propose a framework grounded in established clinical knowledge to model patients’ lengths of stay. In particular, we impose expert knowledge when grouping raw clinical data into medically meaningful variables that summarize patients’ health trajectories. We use dynamic, predictive models to output patients’ remaining lengths of stay, future discharges, and census probability distributions based on their health trajectories up to the current stay. Evaluated with large-scale EMR data, the dynamic model significantly improves predictive power over the performance of any model in previous literature and remains medically interpretable. Summary of Contribution: The widespread implementation of electronic health systems has created opportunities and challenges to best utilize mounting clinical data for healthcare operations. In this study, we propose a new approach that integrates clinical analysis in generating variables and implementations of computational methods. This approach allows our model to remain interpretable to the medical professionals while being accurate. We believe our study has broader relevance to researchers and practitioners of healthcare operations.

‘Japan Fight. Aboriginal People Fight. European People Fight’: Yolngu Stories from World War II

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (S1) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Noah Riseman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
World War ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
War Effort ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Australian Soil

Abstract Did you know that a Bathurst Islander captured the first Japanese prisoner of war on Australian soil? Or that a crucifix saved the life of a crashed American pilot in the Gulf of Carpentaria? These are excerpts from the rich array of oral histories of Aboriginal participation in World War II. This paper presents “highlights” from Yolngu oral histories of World War II in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Using these stories, the paper begins to explore some of the following questions: Why did Yolngu participate in the war effort? How did Yolngu see their role in relation to white Australia? In what ways did Yolngu contribute to the security of Australia? How integral was Yolngu assistance to defence of Australia? Although the answers to these questions are not finite, this paper aims to survey some of the Yolngu history of World War II.

scholarly journals ‘Little Gunshots, but with the blaze of lightning’: Xavier Herbert, Visuality and Human Rights

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
Jane Lydon
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
World War ◽  
Major Work ◽  
The North ◽  
Significant Difference

Xavier Herbert published his bestseller Capricornia in 1938, following two periods spent in the Northern Territory. His next major work, Poor Fellow My Country (1975), was not published until thirty-seven years later, but was also set in the north during the 1930s. One significant difference between the two novels is that by 1975 photo-journalism had become a significant force for influencing public opinion and reforming Aboriginal policy. Herbert’s novel, centring upon Prindy as vulnerable Aboriginal child, marks a sea change in perceptions of Aboriginal people and their place in Australian society, and a radical shift toward use of photography as a means of revealing the violation of human rights after World War II. In this article I review Herbert’s visual narrative strategies in the context of debates about this key historical shift and the growing impact of photography in human rights campaigns. I argue that Poor Fellow My Country should be seen as a textual re-enactment, set in Herbert’s and the nation’s past, yet coloured by more recent social changes that were facilitated and communicated through the camera’s lens. Like all re-enactments, it is written in the past conditional: it asks, what if things had been different? It poses a profound challenge to the state project of scientific modernity that was the Northern Territory over the first decades of the twentieth century.

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

2009 ◽  
Vol 190 (10) ◽  
pp. 532-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Q Li ◽  
Natalie J Gray ◽  
Steve L Guthridge ◽  
Sabine L M Pircher
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Avoidable Hospitalisation

scholarly journals Working with Aboriginal young people in sexual health research: a peer research methodology in remote Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Stephen Bell ◽  
Peter Aggleton ◽  
Andrew Lockyer ◽  
Tellisa Ferguson ◽  
Walbira Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Remote Setting

In a context of ongoing colonization and dispossession in Australia, many Aboriginal people live with experiences of health research that is done “on” rather than “with” or “by” them. Recognizing the agency of young people and contributing to Aboriginal self-determination and community control of research, we used a peer research methodology involving Aboriginal young people as researchers, advisors, and participants in a qualitative sexual health study in one remote setting in the Northern Territory, Australia. We document the methodology, while critically reflecting on its benefits and limitations as a decolonizing method. Findings confirm the importance of enabling Aboriginal young people to play a central role in research with other young people about their own sexual health. Future priorities include developing more enduring forms of coinvestigation with Aboriginal young people beyond data collection during single studies, and support for young researchers to gain formal qualifications to enhance future employability.

scholarly journals Diabetes during pregnancy and birthweight trends among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory of Australia over 30 years

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 100005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J.L. Hare ◽  
Federica Barzi ◽  
Jacqueline A. Boyle ◽  
Steven Guthridge ◽  
Roland F. Dyck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

2009 ◽  
Vol 191 (7) ◽  
pp. 411-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Q Li ◽  
Natalie J Gray ◽  
Steve L Guthridge ◽  
Sabine L M Pircher
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Avoidable Hospitalisation

19. INFECTIOUS SYPHILIS ELIMINATION FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLE IN NSW: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Sexual Health ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
P. Spokes ◽  
M. Bartlett ◽  
K. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Disease Information ◽  
Sexually Transmissible Infections ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Definition Of

Elimination of syphilis within Aboriginal communities is one of the stated goals of the NSW Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy 2006-2009. In 2007, a project was undertaken to inform strategy development to achieve the goal of elimination of infectious syphilis in Aboriginal communities. Australian and international literature on elimination strategies for syphilis, STIs and other diseases was reviewed. Surveillance data were accessed through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System and NSW Notifiable Disease Database and analysed to describe the current burden of disease. Key informants were consulted for advice on elimination strategies for infectious syphilis for Aboriginal people and possible barriers to the goal. Infectious syphilis notifications for Aboriginal people have decreased significantly from 64% of all infectious syphilis cases in 1995 to 3% in 2006. For the rest of the population notifications have increased. Changes in male to female ratios and an increase in metropolitan notifications have been noted in recent years. Improvements in recording of Aboriginality information for infectious syphilis in NSW have allowed greater confidence in interpreting these trends. The role of accurate and complete surveillance information will play an important role in planning and directing the implementation of interventions to achieve the goal of syphilis elimination for Aboriginal people in NSW. Challenges to the goal of elimination and the feasibility of a disease elimination strategy specific for Aboriginal people include issues of access to services for testing, diagnosis and treatment; cross-border mobility of Aboriginal people; prevalence of syphilis in the wider community; and continued access to accurate information. Lessons learned from international and Australian elimination strategies; burden of disease information; definition of elimination and target rates; challenges and strategies for achieving the goal of syphilis elimination and will be discussed.

Aboriginal Education: The School at Strelley, Western Australia

1981 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Liberman
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Australian Population

Education is suspect among traditionally oriented Aboriginal people because it has been used by the dominant Anglo-Australian population as a means for forced acculturation. Having had little control over schools in their communities, most Aboriginal people have failed to give them their enthusiastic support. Aboriginal leaders recognize, however,that Aboriginals need to develop literacy and cognitive skills to protect their culture from outside domination, and are now pushing for control of their schools. The Strelley School marks a progressive and successful Aboriginal effort to administer education on their own terms.

Aboriginal Studies at Year 12 in South Australia and Northern Territory

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Adele Pring
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Form ◽  
Senior Secondary

Aboriginal Studies is now being taught at Year 12 level in South Australian schools as an externally moderated, school assessed subject, accredited by the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia.It is a course in which students learn from Aboriginal people through their literature, their arts, their many organizations and from visiting Aboriginal communities. Current issues about Aborigines in the media form another component of the study.

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