Umoona Kidney Project

• Reach:

  SA

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Completed

• Evaluated:

  No

• Time frame:

  1 January 1997 - 1 January 2000

Overview

The Umoona Kidney Project of the Community Point-of-Care Services unit of Adelaide was a program for the early detection, prevention and management of renal disease in the Umoona community at Coober Pedy. The project, which began in late 1997, was handed over to the community as a self-sustaining program, fully integrated into the Umoona Health service infrastructure in December 2000.

Contacts

Mark Shephard
Director and Senior Research Fellow
Community Point-of-Care Services
Flinders University Rural Clinical School
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Ph: (08) 8204 5070
Fax: (08) 8204 6063
Email: Mark.Shephard@flinders.edu.au

Related publications

Shephard MDS, Allen GG, Paizis K, Barbara JAJ, Batterham M, Vanajek A (2006)

Results of an Aboriginal community-based renal disease management program incorporating point of care testing for urine albumin:creatine ratio.

Rural and Remote Health; 6(3): 591

Retrieved from http://www.rrh.org.au/publishedarticles/article_print_591.pdf

• Links
• View abstract: Results of an Aboriginal community-based renal disease management program incorporating point of care testing for urine albumin:creatine ratio
• View website: Rural and Remote Health

Shephard MDS, Allen GG, Barratt LJ, Barbara JAJ, Paizis K, McLeod G, Brown M, Vanajek A (2003)

Albuminuria in a remote South Australian Aboriginal community: results of a community-based screening program for renal disease.

Rural and Remote Health; 3(1): 156

Retrieved from http://www.rrh.org.au/publishedarticles/article_print_156.pdf

• Links
• View abstract: Albuminuria in a remote South Australian Aboriginal community: results of a community-based screening program for renal disease
• View website: Pubmed

Links

• View information: Umoona Kidney Project
• View website: Community Point-of-Care Services unit
• View website: Flinders University Rural Clinical School