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Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin
 

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Bibliography

2012

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (2012)

Summary of Australian Indigenous health, 2011.

Perth, WA: Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

Hare KM, Binks MJ, Grimwood K, Chang AB, Leach AJ, Smith-Vaughan H (2012)

Culture and PCR detection of haemophilus influenzae and haemophilus haemolyticus in Australian Indigenous children with bronchiectasis.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology; Published ahead of print(http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/​JCM.00566-12):

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

Flego KL, Truman G, Sheppeard V, Gilmour RE (2011)

Invasive pneumococcal disease in western Sydney, 2002–2010.

NSW Public Health Bulletin; 22(12): 219-221

Goggin LS, Carcione D, Mak DB, Dowse GK, Giele CM, Smith DW, Effler PV (2011)

Chronic disease and hospitalisation for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Western Australians.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 35(2): 172-176

Harvey RM, Stroeher UH, Ogunniyi AD, Smith-Vaughan HC, Leach AJ, Paton JC (2011)

A variable region within the genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae contributes to strain-strain variation in virulence.

PLoS ONE; 6(5): e19650

Retrieved from http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0019650

Hull B, Dey A, Mahajan D, Menzies R, McIntyre PB (2011)

Immunisation coverage annual report, 2009.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 35(2): 132-148

Jacups SP, Cheng A (2011)

The epidemiology of community acquired bacteremic pneumonia, due to streptococcus pneumoniae, in the top end of the Northern Territory, Australia - over 22 years.

Vaccine; 29(33): 5386-5392

Massey PD, Kerry T, Osbourn M, Taylor K, Durrheim DN (2011)

Invasive pneumococcal disease in New South Wales, Australia: reporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status improves epidemiology: surveillance report.

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response; 2(3): 1-4

Massey PD, Miller A, Saggers S, Durrheim DN, Speare R, Taylor K, Pearce G, Odo T, Broome J, Judd J, Kelly J, Blackley M, Clough A (2011)

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and the development of pandemic influenza containment strategies: community voices and community control.

Health Policy; Article in Press(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.07.004):

Moore HC, Lehmann D, de Klerk N, Jacoby P, Richmond PC (2011)

Reduction in disparity for pneumonia hospitalisations between Australian indigenous and non-Indigenous children.

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health; Online first(http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2010.122762): 1-6

NNDSS Writing Group (2011)

Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2009: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 35(2): 61-131

Trauer JM, Laurie KL, McDonnell J, Kelso A, Markey PG (2011)

Differential effects of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 on remote and Indigenous groups, Northern Territory, Australia, 2009.

Emerging Infectious Diseases; 17(9): 1615-1623

Williams SR, Mernagh PJ, Lee MHT, Tan JT (2011)

Changing epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in Australian children after introduction of a 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

Medical Journal of Australia; 194(3): 116-120

2010

Appuhamy RD, Beard FH, Phung HN, Selvey CE, Birrell FA, Culleton TH (2010)

The changing phases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Queensland: an overview of public health actions and epidemiology.

Medical Journal of Australia; 192(2): 94-97

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2010)

2010 pandemic vaccination survey: summary results.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association (2010)

CARPA standard treatment manual [5th ed.].

5th ed. Alice Springs: Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association

Many practitioners arrive in central and northern Australia without any specific relevant training for remote practice. The standard treatment manual helps them to deal with a range of health, social and work conditions that they may not have experienced before.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Centre for Disease Control (2010)

Notifications for diseases by onset date & districts: 1 January – 31 December 2009 & 2008.

Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 17(1): 42

Centre for Epidemiology and Research (2010)

2006–2009 report on Adult Aboriginal Health from the New South Wales population health survey.

Sydney: NSW Department of Health

Chiu C, Dey A, Wang H, Menzies R, Deeks S, Mahajan D, Macartney K, Brotherton J, Jardine A, Quinn H, Jelfs J, Booy R, Lawrence G, Jayasinghe S, Roberts A, Senanayake S, Wood N, McIntyre P (2010)

Vaccine preventable diseases in Australia, 2005 to 2007.

Canberra: Australian Department of Health and Ageing

Davis JS, Cross GB, Charles PGP, Currie BJ, Anstey NM, Cheng AC (2010)

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?.

Medical Journal of Australia; 192(3): 133-136

Department of Health and Ageing (2010)

Australian influenza surveillance report: no. 30, 2010, reporting period: 24 July 2010 – 30 July 2010.

Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing, Australia

Flint SM, Davis JS, Su J-Y, Oliver-Landry EP, Rogers BA, Goldstein A, Thomas JH, Parameswaran U, Bigham C, Freeman K, Goldrick P, Tong SYC (2010)

Disproportionate impact of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza on Indigenous people in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory.

Medical Journal of Australia; 192(10): 617-622

Halder N, Kelso JK, Milne GJ (2010)

Analysis of the effectiveness of interventions used during the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic.

BMC Public Health; (10): 168

Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-10-168.pdf

Hanna JN, Humphreys JL, Jennison A, Penny M, Smith HV (2010)

Serotype 6C invasive pneumococcal disease in Indigenous people in north Queensland.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 34(2): 122-123

Harris PNA, Dixit R, Francis F, Buettner PG, Leahy C, Burgher B, Egan A, Proud M, Jayalath R, Grewal A, Norton RE (2010)

Pandemic Influenza H1N1 2009 in north Queensland – risk factors for admission in a region with a large Indigenous population.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 34(2): 102-109

Herceg A, Sharp PG, Arthur CG, Tongs JA (2010)

Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 in an urban Aboriginal medical service.

Medical Journal of Australia; 192(10): 623

Mackenzie GA, Leach AJ, Carapetis JR, Fisher J, Morris PS (2010)

Epidemiology of nasopharyngeal carriage of respiratory bacterial pathogens in children and adults: cross-sectional surveys in a population with high rates of pneumococcal disease.

BMC Infectious Diseases; 10: 304

Retrieved 23 October 2010 from http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-304

McIver LJ, Kippin AN, Parish ST, Whitehead OG (2010)

HIV, malaria and pneumonia in a Torres Strait Islander male – a case report.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 34(4): 448-449

Miller A, Clough A, Nelson C, Durrheim D, Pearce G, Roberts J, Broome J, Judd J, Kelly J, Taylor K, Blackley M, Massey PD, Speare R, Saggers S, Odo T (2010)

Influenza studies with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities: keeping families safe.

Townsville: James Cook University

Miller A, Durrheim DN (2010)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities forgotten in new Australian National Action Plan for Human Influenza Pandemic: “Ask us, listen to us, share with us” (editorial).

Medical Journal of Australia; 193(6): 316-317

Moberley S, Krause V, Cook H, Mulholland K, Carapetis J, Torzillo P, Andrews R (2010)

Failure to vaccinate or failure of vaccine? Effectiveness of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine program in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Vaccine; 28(11): 2296-2301

Newman L, Stirzaker S, Knuckey D, Robinson K, Hood J, Knope K, Fitzsimmons G, Martin N, Siripol S, Gajanayake I, Kaczmarek M, Barr I, Hii A, Foxwell R, Owen R, Wright P, Fitzsimmons G, Sanders L, Barry C, Barker S, Ormond J, Liu C (2010)

Australia’s notifiable disease status, 2008: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 34(3): 157-224

Senanayake SN (2010)

Australia’s health 2010: an overview of infectious diseases [editorial].

Medical Journal of Australia; 193(5): 256-257

Stokes B (2010)

Ministerial review into the public health response into the adverse events to the seasonal influenza vaccine - final report to the Minister for Health.

Perth, WA: Department of Health, Western Australia

2009

Bailie RS (2009)

A systems approach to improving timeliness of immunisation.

Vaccine; 27(27): 3669-3674

Bishop JF, Murnane MP, Owen R (2009)

Australia's winter with the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus.

New England Journal of Medicine; 361(22): 2591-2594

Centre for Disease Control (2009)

NT Notifications for diseases by onset date & district 2008 & 2007.

Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 16(1): 27

Chang Y-S, van Hal SJ, Spencer PM, Gosbell IB, Collett PW (2009)

Comparison of adult patients hospitalised with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and seasonal influenza during the “PROTECT” phase of the pandemic response.

Medical Journal of Australia; 192(Rapid Online Publication): 1-4

Cheng AC, Dwyer DE, Kotsimbos ATC, Starr M, Korman TM, Buttery JP, Jenkins CR, Krause VL, Johnson PDR (2009)

ASID/TSANZ guidelines: treatment and prevention of H1N1 influenza 09 (human swine influenza) with antiviral agents.

Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal; 33(4): 21-28

Flint S, Su J-Y, Scott L, Krause V (2009)

The early experience of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 16(2): 1-8

Hunter KB, Carter J, Kewley C (2009)

Protecting our mob from the pandemic: deployment of an Indigenous-led specialist mobile flu clinic team in response to an emerging public health threat (H1N1 09 swine flu).

Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal; 33(6): 30-33

Kelly H, Mercer GN, Cheng AC (2009)

Quantifying the risk of pandemic influenza in pregnancy and Indigenous people in Australia in 2009.

Eurosurveillance; 14(50): 19411

Retrieved from http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19441

Krause VL, Cheng AC (2009)

H1N1 influenza 09 (human swine influenza) in remote Indigenous communities.

Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal; 33(4): 2

La Ruche G, Tarantola A, Barboza P, Vaillant L, Gueguen J, Gastellu-Etchegorry M (2009)

The 2009 pandemic H1N1 infuenza and indigenous populations of the Americas and the Pacific.

Eurosurveillance; 14(42): 19366

Retrieved from http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19366

Leach AJ, Morris PS, McCallum GB, Wilson CA, Stubbs L, Beissbarth J, Jacups S, Hare K, Smith-Vaughan HC (2009)

Emerging pneumococcal carriage serotypes in a high-risk population receiving 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine since 2001.

BMC Infectious Diseases; (9): 121

Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/9/121

Massey PD, Miller A, Durrheim DN, Speare R, Saggers S, Eastwood K (2009)

Pandemic influenza containment and the cultural and social context of Indigenous communities: letter to the editor.

Rural and Remote Health; (9): 1179

Retrieved 24 March 2009 from http://www.rrh.org.au/publishedarticles/article_print_1179.pdf

Massey PD, Pearce G, Taylor KA, Orcher L, Saggers S, Durrheim DN (2009)

Reducing the risk of pandemic influenza in Aboriginal communities.

Rural and Remote Health; (9): 1290

Retrieved 3 September 2009 from http://www.rrh.org.au/publishedarticles/article_print_1290.pdf

Menzies RI, Singleton RJ (2009)

Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination policy for indigenous populations.

Pediatric Clinics of North America; 56(6): 1263-1283

Moore HC, de Klerk N, Richmond P, Keil AD, Lindsay K, Plant A, Lehmann D (2009)

Seasonality of respiratory viral identification varies with age and Aboriginality in metropolitan Western Australia.

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal; 28(7): 598-603

Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin (2009)

CDNA position statement on the use of antiviral medication for influenza (Pandemic (H1N1) 2009).

Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 16(2): 9-11

Population Health Queensland (2009)

Strategic directions for communicable disease prevention and control 2009–2012.

Brisbane: Queensland Health

Smith-Vaughan H, Marsh R, Mackenzie G, Fisher J, Morris PS, Hare K, McCallum G, Binks M, Murphy D, Lum G, Cook H, Krause V, Jacups S, Leach AJ (2009)

Age-specific cluster of cases of serotype 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage in remote Indigenous communities in Australia.

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology; 16(2): 218-221

2008

Begg K, Roche P, Owen R, Liu C, Kaczmarek M, Hii A, Stirzaker S, McDonald A, Fitzsimmons G, McIntyre P, Menzies R, East I, Coleman D, O’Neil K (2008)

Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2006: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 32(2): 169

Clucas DB, Carville KS, Connors C, Currie B, Carapetis J, Andrews R (2008)

Disease burden and health-care clinic attendances for young children in remote Aboriginal communities of northern Australia.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization; 86(4): 275-281

Lithgow AE, Tong SYC (2008)

The emerging problem of community-associated MRSA; necrotising pneumonia in a 19 month old Aboriginal boy.

Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 15(2): 22-24

Markey P (2008)

The epidemiology of laboratory confirmed influenza in the NT 2001-2007.

Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 15(2): 6-9

Menzies R, Turnour C, Chiu C, McIntyre P (2008)

Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia, 2003 to 2006.

Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing

Parnell AE (2008)

Review of notifiable diseases, 2007.

Disease WAtch; 12(2): 4-10

Roche PW, Krause V, Cook H, Barralet J, Coleman D, Sweeny A, Fielding J, Giele C, Gilmour R, Holland R, Kampen R, Brown M, Gilbert L, Hogg G, Murphy D (2008)

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Australia, 2006.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 32(1): 18-30

Smith-Vaughan H, Crichton F, Beissbarth J, Morris PS, Leach AJ (2008)

Survival of pneumococcus on hands and fomites.

BMC Research Notes; 1(112): 1-4

Thomas P, Joseph TL, Menzies RI (2008)

Evaluation of a targeted immunisation program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants in an urban setting.

NSW Public Health Bulletin; 19(5-6): 96-99

Zurynski YA, Lester-Smith D, Festa MS, Kesson AM, Booy R, Elliott EJ (2008)

Enhanced surveillance for serious complications of influenza in children: role of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 32(1): 71-76

2007

Giele C, Moore H, Baley K, Harrison C, Murphy D, Rooney K, Keil AD, Lehmann D (2007)

Has the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine had an impact on invasive pneumococcal disease in Western Australia?.

Vaccine; 25(13): 2379-2384

National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (2007)

Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Australia, 2003 to 2005.

Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

2006

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2006)

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: Australia, 2004-05.

Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

This summary of results from the 2004-05 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey provides information about health status, health actions, and lifestyle factors, of Indigenous peoples. There are comparisons with the 1995 and 2001 National Health Surveys and the 2002 National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Social Survey.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (2006)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2006 report.

Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing

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

Dunbar M, Moberley S, Nelson S, Leach A, Andrews R (2006)

Clear not simple: an approach to community consultation for a maternal pneumoccocal vaccine trial among Indigenous women in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Vaccine; 25(13): 2385-2388

Hanna JN, Humphreys JL, Murphy DM (2006)

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Indigenous people in north Queensland, 1999-2004.

Medical Journal of Australia; 184(3): 118-121

Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (2006)

Annual report 2006.

Perth: Telethon Institute for Child Health Research

Yohannes K, Roche P, Roberts A, Liu C, Firestone S, Bartlett M, East I, Hull BP, Kirk MD, Lawrence GL, McDonald A, McIntyre PB, Menzies RI, Quinn HE, Vadjic C (2006)

Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2004: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 30(1): 1-79

In 2004, 60 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and Territories reported a total of 110,929 cases of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS): an increase of 4 per cent on the number of notifications in 2003. In 2004, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (46,762 cases; 42% of total notifications), gastrointestinal diseases (25,247 cases; 23% of total notifications) and bloodborne diseases (19, 191 cases; 17% of total notifications). There were 13,206 notifications of vaccine preventable diseases, 6 000 notifications of vectorborne diseases, 1,799 notifications of other bacterial infections (includes, legionellosis, leprosy, meningococcal infections and tuberculosis) and 8,787 notifications of zoonotic diseases.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence abstract - copyright Commonwealth of Australia reproduced by permission. Available on the Communicable Diseases Australia website

2003

Tropical Health Working Group of the Top End Division of General Practice (2003)

Tropical health in the Top End: an introduction for health practitioners.

Darwin: Top End Division of General Practice

This guide aims to provide orientation and advice for doctors and health practitioners new to the Top End. It contains summaries of 50 health conditions less frequently encountered in clinical practice in southern parts of Australia. The guide includes specific references to Aboriginal people, including case studies, and provides references to culturally specific educational resources.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

 
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