Publications: specific topics

Publications about various aspects of Indigenous alcohol misuse have been provided under the topics listed below. Included on this page are journal articles, reports, theses, and other literature about health impacts.

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Health impacts

2008

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008)
Health risk factors. In: The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics
View report section: (PDF - 653 KB)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View website: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Xiao J, Rowe T, Somerford P, Draper G, J. M (2008)
Impact of alcohol on the population of Western Australia.
Perth: Department of Health WA
View report: (PDF - 1.33MB - large file warning!)
View website: Department of Health

2007

National Drug Research Institute (2007)
Trends in alcohol-attributable deaths among Indigenous Australians, 1998-2004.
Perth, National Drug Research Institute
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View report (PDF - 204KB)
View website: National Drug Research Institute

O'Leary C, Heuzenroeder L, Elliott EJ, Bower C (2007)
A review of policies on alcohol use during pregnancy in Australia and other English-speaking countries, 2006.
Medical Journal of Australia;186(9):466-471
View article: Medical Journal of Australia
View website: Medical Journal of Australia

2006

Foster D, Williams R, Campbell D, Davis V, Pepperill, L (2006)
Researching ourselves back to life: new ways of conducting Aboriginal alcohol research.
Drug and Alcohol Review; 25, 213-217
View article: Drug and Alcohol Review
View website: Drug and Alcohol Review

Kelly AB (2006)
Alcohol problems and psychological health in a remote Indigenous Australian community: a preliminary quantitative study.
Australian Journal of Rural Health;14(2):86-87
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View article info: Australian Journal of Rural Health
View website: Blackwell Synergy (Blackwell Publishing)

Panaretto K, Lee H, Mitchell M, Larkins S, Manessis V, et al. (2006)
Risk factors for preterm, low birth weight and small gestational age birth in urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Townsville.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;30(2):163-170
View article: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
View website: Public Health Association of Australia

2005

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
National comorbidity initiative: a review of data collections relating to people with coexisting substance use and mental health disorders. (AIHW catalogue no. PHE 60)
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View report (PDF - 1.2MB - large file warning!)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Payne J, Elliott E, D'Antoine H, O'Leary C, Mahony A, et al. (2005)
Health professionals' knowledge, practice and opinions about fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol consumption in pregnancy.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;29(6):558-564
View report
View website: Public Health Association of Australia

2003

Harris KR, Bucens IK (2003)
Prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome in the Top End of the Northern Territory.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health ;39(7):528-533
View abstract: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
View website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)

Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community (2003)
Interim report to the committee inquiry to date: issues of alcohol abuse, canabis use and inhalant abuse.
Darwin: Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community, Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
View report (PDF - 157KB)
View website: Northern Territory Government

2001

Butler T (2001)
'Owned by nobody': health status and its determinants among New South Wales prisoners.
Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy thesis,
School of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
View abstract (Australian Digital Thesis Program)
View thesis (PDF - 1.9MB - large file warning!)
View website: University of New South Wales

1992

Chalmers E (1992)
Alcohol in the Northern Territory: a follow-up study of morbidity and mortality amongst hospital patients.
Unpublished Master of Public Health thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney.
View abstract
View website: University of Sydney

1986

Valliappan V (1986)
Alcohol and pregnancy outcomes; a pilot study in Aboriginal communities.
Unpublished Master of Medicine thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney.
View abstract
View website: University of Sydney

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Last updated: 09 September 2008