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Aboriginal children hospitalised with acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) are at-risk of developing bronchiectasis, which can progress from untreated protracted bacterial bronchitis, often evidenced by a chronic (>4 weeks) wet cough following discharge. We aimed to facilitate follow-up for Aboriginal children hospitalised with ALRIs to provide optimal management and improve their respiratory health outcomes.
Our findings highlight the need to consider age, ethnicity, seasonality and climate when evaluating rotavirus vaccine programs.
Methodological issues and implications for interventions to support young Aboriginal people's adaptation are discussed.
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) occur at very high rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
In Australia, rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is almost exclusively restricted to Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people with children being...
The burden of mental health problems among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is a major public health problem in Australia.
Globally, ARF and RHD cause more than a quarter of a million deaths and substantial disability each year.
There is a lack of data on the out-of-hospital burden of acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in developed countries.
We begin to bridge this knowledge gap by assessing evidence on social gradients in indigenous health in Australia.
We sought to provide insights by examining socio-economic disparities in physical health outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in WA.