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.
Key
references
Details and links, when available, for key references about the eye health of Indigenous people are provided here.
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Key references
2007
- Kain S, Morgan W, Riley D, Dorizzi K, Hogarth G, et al.
(2007) Prevalence of trachoma in school children of remote
Western Australian communities between 1992 and 2003. Clinical
and Experimental Ophthalmology ;35(2):119-123
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
2006
- Communicable Disease Network Australia (2006) Guidelines
for the public health management of trachoma in Australia.
Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
View report
View website: Department of Health and Ageing - Durkin SR, Casson R, Newland HS, Selva D (2006) Prevalence
of trachoma and diabetes-related eye disease among a cohort
of adult Aboriginal patients screened over the period 1999-2004
in remote South Australia . Clinical and Experimental
Ophthalmology;34(4):329-335
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Laforest C, Durkin S, Selva D, Casson R, Newland H (2006)
Aboriginal versus non-Aboriginal ophthalmic disease: admission
characteristics at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Clinical
and Experimental Ophthalmology ;34(4):324-328
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Mak DB (2006) Better late than never: a national approach
to trachoma control [editorial]. Medical Journal of
Australia;184(10):487-488
View article (HTML)
View article (PDF - 142KB)
View website: Medical Journal of Australia - Mak DB, O'Neill LM, Herceg A, McFarlane H (2006) Prevalence
and control of trachoma in Australia, 1997-2004. Communicable
Diseases Intelligence;30(2):236-247
View article (HTML)
View article (PDF - 180KB)
View website: Communicable Diseases Intelligence
2005
- Australian Department of Health and Ageing, Victorian
Department of Human Services (2005) Eye health in Australia:
a background paper to the national framework for action
to promote eye health and prevent avoidable blindness and
vision loss. Canberra : Australian Government Department
of Health and Ageing and the Victorian Department of Human
Services
View report (PDF - 676KB)
View website: Australian Department of Health and Ageing - Jaross N, Ryan P, Newland H (2005) Incidence and progression
of diabetic retinopathy in an Aboriginal Australian population:
results from the Katherine Region Diabetic Retinopathy Study
(KRDRS), report no. 2: clinical science. Clinical and
Experimental Ophthalmology;33(1):26-33
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Landers J, Kleinschmidt A, Wu J, Burt B, Ewald D, et al.
(2005) Prevalence of cicatricial trachoma in an Indigenous
population of Central Australia: the Central Australian
Trachomatous Trichiasis Study (CATTS). Clinical and
Experimental Ophthalmology;33(2):142-126
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Murray RB, Metcalf SM, Lewis PM, Mein JK, McAllister IL
(2005) Sustaining remote-area programs: retinal camera use
by Aboriginal health workers and nurses in a Kimberley partnership.
Medical Journal of Australia;182(10):520-523
View article (HTML)
View article (PDF - 184KB)
View website: Medical Journal of Australia - Taylor HR (2005) Diabetic retinopathy [editorial]. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology;33:3-4
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
2004
- Department of Health and Ageing (2004) Australian
government response to the review of the implementation
of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye
Health Program. Canberra : Department of Health and
Ageing
View report (PDF - 214KB)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing - Kaplan-Myrth N (2004) Political visions: blindness
prevention as a case study of community-government relations
in Aboriginal health. (Discussion paper no.10) Melbourne:
VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community Development
Unit
View report (PDF - 169KB)
View website: Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit - Layland B, Holden B, Evans K, Bailey S (2004) ICEE/AHMRC
NSW Aboriginal Eye and Visioncare Program , Australia [project
report] . Rural and Remote Health;4(1):Article
247.
View report (PDF - 405KB)
View website: Rural and Remote Health - Taylor V, Ewald D, Liddle H, Warchivker I (2004) Review
of the implementation of the National Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Eye Health Program. Canberra: Centre
for Remote Health
View report (PDF - 566KB)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing
2003
- Burns J, Thomson N (2003) Eye health. In: Thomson N, ed. The health of Indigenous Australians . South Melbourne: Oxford University Press:273-289
- Commonwealth of Australia (2005) National framework
for action to promote eye health and prevent avoidable blindness
and vision loss. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia
View report (PDF - 222KB)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing - Couzos S, Taylor H (2003) Trachoma. In: Couzos S, Murray R, eds. Aboriginal primary health care: an evidence-based approach . 2nd ed. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press:572-593
- Ewald DP, Hall GV, Franks CC (2003) An evaluation of a
SAFE-style trachoma control program in Central Australia
. Medical Journal of Australia;178(2):65-68
View article (HTML)
View article (PDF - 208KB)
View website: Medical Journal of Australia - Hewitt A, Verman N, Gruen R (2001) Visual outcomes for
remote Australian Aboriginal people after cataract surgery.
Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology;29(2):68-74
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Jaross N (2003) Diabetic retinopathy in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory. Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy thesis, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
- Jaross N, Ryan P, Newland H (2003) Prevalence of diabetic
retinopathy in an Aboriginal Australian population: results
from the Katherine Region Diabetic Retinopathy Study (KRDRS):
report no. 1. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology;31(1):32-39
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Mak D, Plant A, McAllister I (2003) Screening for diabetic
retinopathy in remote Australia: a program description and
evaluation of a devolved model. Australian Journal of
Rural Health;11(5):224-230
View abstract
View website: Australian Journal of Rural Health - McCarty CA (2003) Diabetic retinopathy: yet another reason for a comprehensive eye-care programme for Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders [editorial]. Clinical and
Experimental Ophthalmology;31(1):6-7
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
2002
- da Cruz L, Dadour I, McAllister I, Jackson A, Isaacs T
(2002) Seasonal variation in trachoma and bush flies in
north-western Australian Aboriginal communities. Clinical
and Experimental Ophthalmology;30(2):80-83
View abstract)
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
2001
- Mak D, Smith DW, Harnett GB, Plant AJ (2001) A large outbreak
of conjunctivitis caused by a single genotype of Neisseria
gonorrhoeae distinct from those causing genital tract infections.
Epidemiology and Infection;126(3):373-378
View abstract
View website: Epidemiology and Infection
Mak DB, Plant AJ (2001) Trichiasis in Aboriginal people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia . Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology;29(1):7-11
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
(2001) Specialist eye health guidelines for use in Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander populations. Canberra: Commonwealth
Department of Health and Aged Care
View report
View website: Department of Health and Ageing - Taylor HR (2001) Trachoma in Australia. Medical Journal
of Australia;175:371-372
View article
View website: Medical Journal of Australia - Taylor HR, Robin TA, Lansingh VC, Weih LM, Keeffe JE (2003)
A myopic shift in Australian Aboriginals: 1977-2000. Transactions
of the American Ophthalmological Society;101:107-112
View article (PDF - 161KB)
View website: Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society
Prior to 2001
- Laming AC, Currie BJ, DiFrancesco M, Taylor HR, Mathews
JD (2000) A targeted, single-dose azithromycin strategy
for trachoma. Medical Journal of Australia ;172(4):163-166
View abstract
View website: Medical Journal of Australia - Lansingh VC, Weih LM, Keeffe JE, Taylor HR (2000) Assessment
of trachoma prevalence in a mobile population in Central
Australia. Ophthalmic Epidemiology;8(2-3):97-108
View abstract
View website:Ophthalmic Epidemiology - Taylor HR (1997) Eye health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: the report of a review commissioned by the Commonwealth Minister for Health and Family Services, the Hon. Michael Wooldridge, MP. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services
- Thomson N, Paterson B (1998) Eye health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health Reviews;1
View report (PDF - 161KB) - Wood JM, Patterson CM (1999) Diabetes and diabetic retinopathy
in Indigenous Australians. Clinical and Experimental
Optometry;82(2-3):80-83
View abstract
View website: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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Last updated: 30 June 2007
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