Growing Strong Brains®: assessing practitioner application of a health promotion toolkit within Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Simpson ◽  
Elaine Bennett ◽  
Rhonda Marriott
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Communities

scholarly journals SToP (See, Treat, Prevent) skin sores and scabies trial: study protocol for a cluster randomised, stepped-wedge trial for skin disease control in remote Western Australia

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e030635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne J Mullane ◽  
Timothy C Barnett ◽  
Jeffrey W Cannon ◽  
Jonathan R Carapetis ◽  
Ray Christophers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Skin Disease ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Skin Infections ◽  
Stepped Wedge ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Cluster Randomised

IntroductionSkin is important in Australian Aboriginal culture informing kinship and identity. In many remote Aboriginal communities, scabies and impetigo are very common. Untreated skin infections are painful, itchy and frequently go untreated due to under-recognition and lack of awareness of their potential serious complications. We hypothesise that the skin infection burden in remote Aboriginal communities can be reduced by implementing streamlined training and treatment pathways integrated with environmental health and health promotion activities, tested in the See, Treat, Prevent (SToP skin sores and scabies) trial.Methods and analysisSToP will evaluate a skin control programme using a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised trial design with three intervention components (the ‘SToP activities’): (1) seeing skin infections (development of training resources implemented within a community dermatology model); (2) treating skin infections (employing the latest evidence for impetigo, and scabies treatment); and (3) preventing skin infections (embedded, culturally informed health promotion and environmental health activities). Four community clusters in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia will participate. Following baseline data collection, two clusters will be randomly allocated to the SToP activities. At 12 months, the remaining two clusters will transition to the SToP activities. The primary outcome is the diagnosis of impetigo in children (5–9 years) at school-based surveillance. Secondary outcome measures include scabies diagnosis, other child health indicators, resistance to cotrimoxazole in circulating pathogenic bacteria, determining the economic burden of skin disease and evaluating the cost effectiveness of SToP activities.Ethics and disseminationThis study protocol was approved by the health ethics review committees at the Child and Adolescent Health Service (Approval number RGS0000000584), the Western Australian Aboriginal Health Ethics Committee (Reference number: 819) and the University of Western Australia (Reference RA/4/20/4123). Study findings will be shared with community members, academic and medical communities via publications and presentations, and in reports to funders. Authorship for all publications based on this study will be determined in line with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Sharing results with organisations and communities who contributed to the study is paramount. The results of the SToP trial will be shared with participants in a suitable format, such as a single summary page provided to participants or presentations to communities, the Kimberly Aboriginal Health Planning Forum Research Subcommittee and other stakeholders as appropriate and as requested. Communication and dissemination will require ongoing consultation with Aboriginal communities to determine appropriate formats.Trial registration numberACTRN12618000520235.

scholarly journals Folate and the prevention of neural tube defects: evaluation of a health promotion project in Western Australia

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROL BOWER ◽  
LYNDA BLUM ◽  
CHARLES WATSON ◽  
FIONA STANLEY
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Neural Tube ◽  
Neural Tube Defects

Observations on the endo- and ectoparasites affecting dogs and cats in Aboriginal communities in the north-west of Western Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
pp. 268-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
RCA THOMPSON ◽  
BP MELONI ◽  
RM HOPKINS ◽  
P DEPLAZES ◽  
JA REYNOLDSON
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
North West ◽  
The North

scholarly journals Western Australia’s Remote Indigenous Communities: A Case Against Closures and a Call For New Governance

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 209-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asta Hill
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
The Government

In the late 1970s thousands of Indigenous Australians initiated a movement back to the ancestral lands they had been removed from during the assimilationist era. Less than 50 years since their return to country, Aboriginal people living in Western Australia’s (WA) remote communities are again grappling with their impending redispossession. Wa Premier Colin Barnett’s announcement late last year was panic inducing: It is a problem that I do not want and the government does not want, but it is a reality. There are something like 274 Aboriginal communities in Western Australia—I think 150 or so of those are in the Kimberley itself—and they are not viable. They are not viable and they are not sustainable . . . I am foreshadowing that a number of communities are inevitably going to close.

A cross-sectional survey of environmental health in remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 525-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Melody ◽  
E. Bennett ◽  
H. D. Clifford ◽  
F. H. Johnston ◽  
C. C. J. Shepherd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Aboriginal Communities

Television and delivery of health promotion programs to remote Aboriginal communities

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowena Ivers ◽  
Anthony Castro ◽  
David Parfitt ◽  
Ross S. Bailie ◽  
Robyn L. Richmond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

The bush coconut (scale insect gall) as food at Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yen ◽  
M. Flavel ◽  
C. Bilney ◽  
L. Brown ◽  
S. Butler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Identification ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Scale Insect ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
Insect Gall ◽  
Taxonomic Changes

The bush coconut is used as a source of food by several Australian Aboriginal communities. It is actually a scaleinsect gall. Originally all bush coconut insects were given the same species name, but now there are at least three species in Australia. The bloodwood trees at Kiwirrkurra (Western Australia), Corymbia opaca, had bush coconuts built by the scale insect Cystococcus pomiformis. The use of the coconut is described by some Aboriginal women from Kiwirrkurra. The nutritional value of the bush coconuts from Kiwirrkurra is determined; this is importantinformation because the species tested is known while the species identification of galls in earlier publications is now uncertain due to taxonomic changes.

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