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This section provides recent reference details and - where available - links and abstracts for general publications associated with overweight and obesity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. References include journal articles, reports, theses, and other literature. To access our complete database please use our bibliography.

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2012

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (2012)

Summary of Australian Indigenous health, 2011.

Perth, WA: Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

Boyle JA, Cunningham J, O'Dea K, Dunbar T, Norman RJ (2012)

Prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome in a sample of Indigenous women in Darwin, Australia.

Medical Journal of Australia; 196(1): 62-66

Stewart JM, Sanson-Fisher RW, Eades S, Fitzgerald M (2012)

The risk status, screening history and health concerns of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people attending an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service.

Drug and Alcohol Review; Early View(http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3362.2012.00455.x): 1-8

Thomson N, MacRae A, Brankovich J, Burns J, Catto M, Gray C, Levitan L, Maling C, Potter C, Ride K, Stumpers S, Urquhart B (2012)

Overview of Australian Indigenous health status, 2011.

Perth, WA: Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

2011

Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (2011)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework: 2010 report.

Canberra: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Department of Health and Ageing

This is the third report developed under the auspice of the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council to measure progress against the National strategic framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health as well as the more recent measures introduced under Closing the gap national partnerships.

The performance framework reports on the three tiers of health:

health status and outcomes: this includes measures of prevalence of disease or injury, human function, life expectancy and wellbeing
measures of the health determinants: this includes socioeconomic status, environmental factors and health behaviours
health system performance: this includes effectiveness, responsiveness, accessibility and sustainability.

Major findings of the report include:

a significant decline in Indigenous deaths due to avoidable causes
narrowing of the mortality gap
reduction in infant mortality
chronic diseases are a continuing concern, contributing to two thirds of the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
there were slight reductions in literacy and numeracy gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students
risky behaviours, such as smoking and lack of physical activity, were continuing concerns among Indigenous people
access to, and utilisation of medical services is less than expected given higher levels of illness
access to medical services is more difficult in remote than non-remote areas.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010 report: New South Wales.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

This publication reports on indicators relevant to health status and health outcomes, determinants of health and health systems performance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in New South Wales. The report is based on the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010: detailed analyses report. Jurisdiction-specific and national comparisons are both presented.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010 report: Northern Territory.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

This publication reports on indicators relevant to health status and health outcomes, determinants of health and health systems performance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the Northern Territory. The report is based on the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010: detailed analyses report. Jurisdiction-specific and national comparisons are both presented.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010 report: Queensland.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

This publication reports on indicators relevant to health status and health outcomes, determinants of health and health systems performance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in Queensland. The report is based on the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010: detailed analyses report. Jurisdiction-specific and national comparisons are both presented.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010 report: South Australia.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

This publication reports on indicators relevant to health status and health outcomes, determinants of health and health systems performance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in South Australia. The report is based on the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010: detailed analyses report. Jurisdiction-specific and national comparisons are both presented.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010 report: Victoria.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

This publication reports on indicators relevant to health status and health outcomes, determinants of health and health systems performance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in Victoria. The report is based on the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010: detailed analyses report. Jurisdiction-specific and national comparisons are both presented.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010 report: Western Australia.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

This publication reports on indicators relevant to health status and health outcomes, determinants of health and health systems performance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in Western Australia. The report is based on the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010: detailed analyses report. Jurisdiction-specific and national comparisons are both presented.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)

Headline indicators for children’s health, development and wellbeing 2011.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)

Key indicators of progress for chronic disease and associated determinants: data report.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Cadilhac DA, Magnus A, Sheppard L, Cumming TB, Pearce DC, Carter R (2011)

The societal benefits of reducing six behavioural risk factors: an economic modelling study from Australia.

BMC Public Health; 11: 483

Retrieved 21 June 2011 from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/483

Campbell D (2011)

Application of an integrated multidisciplinary economic welfare approach to improved wellbeing through Aboriginal caring for country.

Rangeland Journal; Online Early(33): 4

Campbell SK, Lynch J, Esterman A, McDermott R (2011)

Pre-pregnancy predictors of diabetes in pregnancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in North Queensland, Australia.

Maternal and Child Health Journal; Online first(http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10995-011-0889-3):

Kuipers K, McIntosh K, Paluch T, Oke L (2011)

Caring for country was associated with positive health outcomes for Indigenous people living in remote areas of Northern Australia.

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal; 58(1): 56-57

Nguyen AR, Ling J, Antoniou G, Sutherland LM, Cundy PJ, Gomes B (2011)

Slipped capital femoral epiphysis: rising rates with obesity and Aboriginality in South Australia.

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery; 93-B(10): 1416-1423

Norton L, Harrison JE, Pointer S, Lathlean T (2011)

Obesity and injury: a review of the literature.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Sayers S, Davison B, Fitz J, Singh G (2011)

Aboriginal birth cohort study–wave 3 selected results: the good news and the bad news.

Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal; 35(5): 23-24

Wolfenden L, Hardy LL, Wiggers J, Milat AJ, Bell C, Sutherland R (2011)

Prevalence and socio-demographic associations of overweight and obesity among children attending child-care services in rural and regional Australia.

Nutrition & Dietetics; 68(1): 15–20

2010

Haren MT, Li M, Petkov J, McDermott RA (2010)

Alcohol, metabolic risk and elevated serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) in Indigenous Australians.

BMC Public Health; 10: 454

Retrieved 3 August 2010 from http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-10-454.pdf

Hodge AM, Maple-Brown L, Cunningham J, Boyle J, Dunbar T, Weeramanthri T, Shaw J, O'Dea K (2010)

Abdominal obesity and other risk factors largely explain the high CRP in Indigenous Australians relative to the general population, but not gender differences: a cross-sectional study.

BMC Public Health; 10: 700

Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-10-700.pdf

Li M, Campbell S, McDermott RA (2010)

Six year weight change and type 2 diabetes among Australian Indigenous adults.

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice; 88(2): 203-208

MacFarlane A, Abbott G, Crawford D, Ball K (2010)

Personal, social and environmental correlates of healthy weight status amongst mothers from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods: findings from the READI study.

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity; 7(23): 1-25

The SEARCH Investigators (2010)

The study of environment on Aboriginal resilience and child health (SEARCH): study protocol.

BMC Public Health; (10): 287

Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-10-287.pdf

Vos T, Carter R, Barendregt J, Mihalopoulos C, Veerman JL, Magnus A, Cobiac L, Bertram MY, Wallace AL (2010)

Assessing cost-effectiveness in prevention (ACE–Prevention): final report.

Canberra: Public Health Association of Australia

2009

Cinelli RL, O'Dea JA (2009)

Body image and obesity among Australian adolescents from Indigenous and Anglo-European backgrounds: implications for health promotion and obesity prevention among Aboriginal youth.

Health Education Research; 24(6): 1059-1068

Friel S (2009)

Health equity in Australia: a policy framework based on the social determinants of obesity, alcohol and tobacco.

Canberra: Preventative Health Taskforce

Kagawa M, Byrne NM, King NA, Pal S, Hills AP (2009)

Ethnic differences in body composition and anthropometric characteristics in Australian Caucasian and urban Indigenous children.

British Journal of Nutrition; 102(6): 938-946

Lix LM, Bruce S, Sarkar J, Young TK (2009)

Risk factors and chronic conditions among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations.

Health Reports; 20(4): 21-30

McDermott R, Campbell S, Li M, McCulloch B (2009)

The health and nutrition of young Indigenous women in north Queensland – intergenerational implications of poor food quality, obesity, diabetes, tobacco smoking and alcohol use.

Public Health Nutrition; online

Retrieved from http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5830928

Ruben AR (2009)

Undernutrition and obesity in indigenous children: epidemiology, prevention, and treatment.

Pediatric Clinics of North America; 56(6): 1285-1302

Sassi F, Devaux M, Cecchini M, Rusticelli E (2009)

The obesity epidemic: analysis of past and projected future trends in selected OECD countries.

Paris: OECD Publishing

World Health Organization (2009)

Global health risks: mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks.

Geneva: World Health Organization

2008

Access Economics (2008)

The growing cost of obesity in 2008 : three years on.

Canberra: Access Economics

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Australian Bureau of Statistics (2008)

Overweight and Obesity in Adults, Australia, 2004-05.

Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Cunningham J, O'Dea K, Dunbar T, Maple-Brown L (2008)

Perceived weight versus body mass index among urban Aboriginal Australians: do perceptions and measurements match?.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health; 32(2): 135-138

Holman CDJ, Smith F (2008)

Implications of the obesity epidemic for the life expectancy of Australians. Report to the Public Health Advocacy Institute of Western Australia.

Retrieved 3 March 2011 from http://www.phaiwa.org.au/images/ObesityandLifeExpectancy.pdf

Population Health Division (NSW) (2008)

The health of the people of New South Wales – report of the Chief Health Officer, data book – Aboriginal peoples.

Sydney: NSW Department of Health

Reeve CA, De La Rue S, McBain KE (2008)

Indigenous lifescripts: a tool for modifying lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease.

Australian Family Physician; 37(9): 750-754

Sellers EA, Singh GR, Sayers SM (2008)

Large waist but low body mass index: the metabolic syndrome in Australian Aboriginal children.

The Journal of Pediatrics; 153(2):

2007

Gracey MS (2007)

Nutrition-related disorders in Indigenous Australians: how things have changed.

Medical Journal of Australia; 186(1): 15-17

2006

Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (2006)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2006 report.

Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing

Barr E, Magliano D, Zimmet P, Polkinghorne K, Atkins R, Dunstan DW, Murray S, Shaw JE (2006)

The Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study.

Melbourne: The International Diabetes Institute

Burns J, Thomson N (2006)

Overweight and obesity - a major problem for Indigenous Australians.

Perth, WA: Kurongkurl Katitjin, School of Indigenous Australian Studies, Edith Cowan University

The worldwide 'epidemic' of obesity includes Australia, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Levels of overweight and obesity are similar for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, but, importantly, the proportion of obese Indigenous people is considerably higher than that of obese non-Indigenous people. The difference in levels of obesity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people is greater for females than for males.

The level of overweight and obesity is slightly higher overall for Torres Strait Islanders than for Aboriginal people, but the level is much higher for Torres Strait Islanders living in the Torres Strait area.

Overweight and obesity are generally caused by energy imbalance over a sustained period of time. Lifestyle factors, such as unhealthy nutrition and lack of physical activity, are the major contributors to the development of overweight and obesity, but a genetic predisposition is also believed to contribute. The social and other disadvantages experienced by many Indigenous people contribute to their levels of overweight and obesity through lifestyle factors. This is particularly so for Indigenous people living in rural remote areas, many of whom have limited access to nutritious food at reasonable prices.

Healthy environments and steps to address the social inequities in health are necessary for prevention strategies. Improving access to nutritious food is a vital step, particularly for Indigenous people in rural and remote areas. Comprehensive strategies, including those for young people, are essential to prevent overweight and obesity leading to further ill-health among Indigenous peoples. Initiatives need to be positioned within broad strategies addressing the continuing social and economic disadvantages that many Indigenous people experience.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Burns J, Thomson N (2006)

Summary of overweight and obesity among Indigenous peoples.

Retrieved from http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/health-risks/overweight-obesity/reviews/our-review

Centre for Epidemiology and Research (2006)

New South Wales population health survey: 2002–2005 report on adult Aboriginal health.

Sydney: New South Wales Department of Health

Turrell G, Stanley L, de Looper M, Oldenburg B (2006)

Health Inequalities in Australia: Morbidity, health behaviours, risk factors and health service use.

Canberra: Queensland University of Technology and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,

2005

NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity, University of Sydney (2005)

A literature review of the evidence for interventions to address overweight and obesity in adults and older Australians, with special reference to people living in rural and remote Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Sydney: University of Sydney

Last updated: 15 May 2012

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