Eye health
Life before the drought
(1999)
Julie Weekes
Acrylic on archer paper
This artwork is provided by the Edith Cowan University Art Collection.
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The painting:
Basically the painting tells the viewer that life is controlled by the change of the environment. This change has taken place within thousands of years, yet man within an eye blink can cause the same change in the land for the sake of development.
The artist:
My mother is fifth generation Australian of European descent and my father a Torres Strait Islander. I grew up knowing I was an Islander but had no knowledge of my family or culture.
Publications:
specific topics
Publications about various aspects of Indigenous eye health have been collected under the topics listed below. Included on this page are journal articles, reports, theses, and other literature about cataracts.
Publications
- General
- Specific topics
- Key references
- Bibliography
- Conference presentations
Cataracts
2007
Wearne SM (2007)
Remote Indigenous Australians with cataracts: they are blind and still can't see [viewpoint].
Medical Journal of Australia;187(6):353-356
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View website: Medical Journal of Australia
2002
Hewitt A, Verma N (2002)
Posterior capsule opacification after cataract surgery in remote Australian Aboriginal patients.
Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology;30:248-251
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abstract: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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website: Blackwell Synergy (Blackwell Publishing)
2001
Hewitt A, Verman N, Gruen R (2001)
Visual outcomes for remote Australian Aboriginal people after cataract surgery.
Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology;29:68-74.
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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abstract: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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website: Blackwell Synergy (Blackwell Publishing)
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2001)
Specialist eye health guidelines for use in Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander populations: cataract, diabetic
retinopathy and trachoma.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report
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Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
2000
Hewitt AW (2000)
Outcomes of cataract surgery and major lower limb amputation
surgery in people from remote communities in the Top End of
the Northern Territory.
Unpublished Bachelor of Medical Science, University of Tasmania,
Hobart
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