Australian Indigenous

The Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin (ISSN 1445-7253) is the electronic journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.

The purpose of the Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin is to facilitate access to information of relevance to Australian Indigenous health. Reflecting the wide range of our users - policy makers, service providers, researchers, students and the general community - the HealthBulletin attempts to keep people informed of current events of relevance, as well as information about recent research. Research information is provided in two ways - the publication of original research and the presentation of abstracts of research published or presented elsewhere.

Preference for publication of original research is given to practical examples of policies, strategies and programs that utilise educational, organisational, economic and/or environmental approaches to Indigenous health. Original research articles are included as 'original articles' or 'brief reports' depending on their size, scope and nature. To ensure readers of their quality, all original research articles are subject to peer review.

The HealthBulletin also publishes peer reviewed general summaries of Indigenous health and reviews of specific topics in the 'Reviews' section. Summaries of innovative health promotion or disease prevention programs which are not subject to a full peer review process, are included in the 'Brief reports' section. There is also provision for the publication of book reviews. Information about recent developments of relevance to Indigenous health is summarised in the 'Current topics' section. Separate sections provide summaries/abstracts of recent journal articles, reports and other publications, conference presentations, resource materials, and academic theses. Details are also provided about new or revised websites.

The Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin is published online as a 'HealthBulletin in progress', to allow readers to have access to new original articles, brief reports and other sources of information as they come to hand. Rather than have material waiting 'behind the scenes' for weeks or months until the next publication, each edition is updated as soon as the material is ready, forming a 'HealthBulletin in progress'. At the end of three months, the edition is closed and the next edition commences. To access the current 'HealthBulletin in progress', click here.

The HealthBulletin welcomes your contributions and assistance. If you would like to submit an article for inclusion in 'Original articles' or 'Brief reports', please see Notes for contributors. If you know of events and information of relevance to other sections of the HealthBulletin please let us know.