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2013
Kline K, McCarthy JS, Pearson M, Loukas A, Hotez PJ (2013)
Neglected Tropical Diseases of Oceania: review of their prevalence, distribution, and opportunities for control.
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases; 7(1): e1755
Retrieved 31 January 2013 from http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0001755
Landers J, Henderson T, Craig JE (2013)
Incidence of visual impairment due to cataract, diabetic retinopathy and trachoma in Indigenous Australians within Central Australia: the Central Australian Ocular Health Study.
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology; 41(1): 50–55
2012
Baunach E, Lines D, Pedwel B, Lange F, Cooney R, Taylor HR (2012)
The development of culturally safe and relevant health promotion resources for effective trachoma elimination in remote Aboriginal communities.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal; 36(2): 9-11,16,19
Cowling CS, Popovic G, Liu BC, Ward JS, Snelling TL, Kaldor JM, Wilson DP (2012)
Australian trachoma surveillance annual report, 2010.
Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 36(3): E242–E250
Ejere HOD, Alhassan MB, Rabiu M (2012)
Face washing promotion for preventing active trachoma.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; (4): CD003659
Retrieved 2 September 2011 from http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003659.pub3
Jones S, Whitehead O, Brian G (2012)
Trachoma in Far North Queensland: an example of poor population health practice.
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology; Accepted article(http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ceo.12038):
Landers J, Henderson T, Craig JE (2012)
Incidence of visual impairment and blindness in Indigenous Australians within Central Australia: the Central Australian Ocular Health Study.
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology; 40(7): 657–661
Lange FD, Baunach E, McKenzie R, Taylor HR (2012)
Trachoma elimination in remote Indigenous Northern Territory communities: baseline health-promotion study.
Australian Journal of Primary Health; Online early(http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY12044):
Clean faces, strong eyes influencing knowledge, attitudes and practice with health promotion and social marketing (2012)
Lange FD, Stanford E, Atkinson J, Taylor HR
This poster was created for the Victorian Department of Health, Aboriginal Health Conference, 'Aboriginal health - everyone's responsibility', and uses images and bullet points to cover the following areas:
- explanation and prevalence of trachoma
- social, cultural, economic and environmental factors contributing to the spread of trachoma
- goals and strategies of trachoma elimination programs
- role of culturally appropriate health promotion resources and social marketing
- trachoma knowledge, attitudes and practice in the Northern Territory in 2011.
Health promotion and social marketing initiatives are provided as case examples, including: the Trachoma story kits, Clean faces, strong eyes, and the Milpa, the trachoma goanna, mascot.
It offers a useful summary for Aboriginal Health Workers, health professionals and other community workers looking to change attitudes and practice at the individual and community level.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Maher L, Brown AM, Torvaldsen S, Dawson AJ, Patterson JA, Lawrence G (2012)
Eye health services for Aboriginal people in the western region of NSW, 2010.
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin; 23(4): 81-86
Milne C (2012)
Adverse outcomes following the use of azithromycin for trachoma treatment in babies.
Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 19(3): 21-27
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (2012)
National guide to a preventive health assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: second edition.
South Melbourne: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
The National guide to a preventive health assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: second edition provides an up-to-date, evidence-based national resource created to help all health professionals delivering primary health care to Indigenous people. The use of this guide may help to prevent disease, detect early and unrecognised disease, and promote health. This guide contains Indigenous-specific information on:
- lifestyle factors (including smoking, overweight/obesity, physical activity, and alcohol)
- health among specific populations (child health, adolescent health, and the health of older people)
- chronic conditions (cardiovascular health, rheumatic heart disease, respiratory health, kidney health, diabetes, and cancer)
- infections conditions (sexual health and bloodborne viruses)
- other health conditions (oral health, eye health, ear health, and mental health).
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Taylor HR, English DR, Field BA, Spicer PE, Graham DM (2012)
Prevalence of trachoma in a single community, 1975–2007.
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology; 40(2): 121-126
Taylor HR, Anjou MD (2012)
Trachoma in Australia: an update.
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology; Accepted Article(http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ceo.12023):
The Kirby Institute (2012)
Highlighting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research at The Kirby Institute.
Sydney: The Kirby Institute
The Australian Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander health program was established at the Kirby Institute in 2007, with an aim to close the gap in the health disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians. The key focus of the Institute's work is sexual health and blood borne viruses, working in collaboration with other key health sectors involved in substance use, offender health, and social and emotional wellbeing research.
This report outlines a number of projects being conducted by the Kirby Institute across Australia. Information for each project includes:
- description of the project
- Aboriginal community involvement
- expected benefits to the community
- investigators
- collaborating organisations
- funding body
- contacts.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
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
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)
Eye health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
This paper summarises the findings of the 2008 National Indigenous eye health survey and presents data from the National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit, Medicare, hospital data collections and case studies.
The major findings include:
- Indigenous people over the age of 40 have six times the rate of blindness of non-Indigenous Australians
- Indigenous children have less poor vision than non-Indigenous children
- 94% of vision loss in Indigenous Australians is preventable or treatable
- 35% of Indigenous Australians report they have never had an eye examination
- trachoma was found in one half of very remote communities at endemic levels
- cataract was the cause of one-third of blindness in Indigenous adults.
Research suggests that improved vision is associated with provision of eye services by the community-controlled sector and that well coordinated services are more productive, have shorter waiting lists and save money.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Hansen-Knarhoi M (2011)
Towards GET 2020: trachoma in the Northern Territory 2010.
Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 18(3): 24-32
Kelaher M, Ferdinand AS, Taylor HR (2011)
Azithromycin treatment levels inadequate for recommended trachoma control guidelines: letters.
Medical Journal of Australia; 194(2): 102
Correcting ten myths about eliminating trachoma (2011)
Lange F, Taylor HR
This factsheet, produced by the Indigenous Eye Health Unit at Melbourne University, provides answers to 10 commonly asked questions about trachoma and its control. It aims to dispel misconceptions about the elimination of trachoma in Australian communities. Information is also provided about the culturally specific health promotion resource developed for trachoma elimination programs in Australia, the Trachoma story kit.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Maher L, Taylor HR, Barton J (2011)
Trachoma.
NSW Public Health Bulletin; 22(10): 209
Mansfield K, Gunn J, Wilson N, Scott L (2011)
Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis and opportunistic trachoma screening in an Indigenous community in the Northern Territory, 2011.
Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 18(4): 8-12
Taylor HR, Dunt D, Hsueh Y, Brando A (2011)
Projected needs for eye care services for Indigenous Australians.
Melbourne: Indigenous Eye Health Unit, the University of Melbourne
The Kirby Institute (2011)
Australian trachoma surveillance report 2010.
Sydney: The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales
2010
Adams K, Burgess J, Dharmage S (2010)
Trachoma surveillance report 2009.
Melbourne: National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit
This is the fourth surveillance report compiled for the National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit (NTSRU) by the Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology at the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne.
The report compares the 2009 data with results from the screenings in 2006, 2007 and 2008. It comments on the implementation of the Communicable Disease Network Australia (CDNA) guidelines' Minimum best-practice approach. The CDNA guidelines are based on the World Health Organisation's (WHO) SAFE strategy: Surgery (for trichiasis), Antibiotic treatment, Facial Cleanliness and Environmental improvement. The WHO aims at eliminating blinding trachoma by 2020. Australia is the only developed nation where trachoma is present.
The focus of the report is data for Aboriginal children aged 1 to 9 years, across 15 regions and 289 communities in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. Main messages from the report are:
- Endemic trachoma remains a major public health problem among Indigenous Australians, detected in 60% of the communities surveyed.
- The prevalence of trachoma across Australia has not changed over the four years.
- There is a large pool of undiagnosed and untreated trachoma among Indigenous children, with prevalence of 14%.
- There is a lesser but still substantial pool of untreated trichiasis (in-turned eyelashes) among Indigenous adults, with prevalence of 4%.
- There is some evidence that the SAFE intervention is having an impact on reducing trachoma prevalence in Western Australia.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Adams KS, Burgess JA, Dharmage SC, Taylor H (2010)
Trachoma surveillance in Australia, 2009: a report by the National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit.
Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 34(4): 375-395
Atik A (2010)
Trachoma in Australia – eye to eye with reality.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal; 34(5): 20-22
HealthConsult (2010)
Review of current arrangements for the collection, recording, transfer and reporting of national trachoma data.
Canberra: Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Department of Health and Ageing
Trachoma resource book (2010)
Hooshmand J, Taylor HR, Stanford E
This book is designed for regional health professionals who deal with trachoma. It forms part of the Trachoma story kit and provides more detailed information on how the condition spreads and how it is controlled. The book comprises of health promotional and educational type materials and uses coloured diagrams and pictures to assist with the identification, treatment and prevention of trachoma.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
The trachoma story kit (2010)
Indigenous Eye Health Unit
The Trachoma story kit is a 'one-stop-shop' of resources, suitable for clinics, schools, and community wide programs. It comes with trachoma clinical education and culturally specific, health promotion resources including:
- flipcharts
- resources books
- World Health Organization grading card
- teacher books
- student lesson plans
- DVDs
- posters.
The new trachoma resources DVD showcases the creative work of communities and program partners over two years of concerted trachoma elimination in the Northern Territory. The health promotion message 'clean faces, strong eyes' is brought to life in many remote communities with original songs, videos, television advertisements and animations by well-known Indigenous artists, hip hop performers, children's television characters, and school children and adults from remote Indigenous communities.
As well as standard trachoma health education tools, there are resources especially designed to actively engage kids and people in Indigenous communities. These include:
- temporary tattoos
- goanna ink stamps
- football hero posters
- student booklets
- chatterboxes.
Background
Since being launched in August 2010, around 700 Trachoma story kits have been used in a concerted effort to eliminate trachoma in Australia. They are used in clinics, schools and community workplaces in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales to provide clear and consistent messages about trachoma, how it is spread and how everyone can help to eliminate it.
The Trachoma story kits are free of charge with no cost other than freight. Extra supplies of tattoos, goanna ink stamp, Jabby DVD, the trachoma resources DVD, and A2 size community flipchart (useful for large groups), are available at cost plus freight.
Abstract adapted from the Indigenous Eye Health Unit
Kelaher M, Ferdinand A, Ngo S, Tambuwla N, Taylor HR (2010)
Access to eye health services among Indigenous Australians: an area level analysis.
Melbourne: Indigenous Eye Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population Health
Landers J, Henderson T, Craig J (2010)
Prevalence and associations of blinding trachoma in Indigenous Australians within Central Australia: the Central Australian Ocular Health Study.
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology; 38(4): 389-404
Lansingh VC, Mukesh BN, Keeffe JE, Taylor HR (2010)
Trachoma control in two Central Australian Aboriginal communities: a case study.
International Ophthalmology; 30(4): 367-375
Taylor H, Gruen R (2010)
Trachoma: antibiotic treatments of Trachoma: a systematic review.
Melbourne: Indigenous Eye Health Unit, University of Melbourne
Taylor HR, Fox SS, Xie J, Dunn RA, Arnold A-LMR, Keeffe JE (2010)
The prevalence of trachoma in Australia: the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey.
Medical Journal of Australia; 192(5): 248-253
Taylor HR, Stanford E (2010)
Provision of Indigenous eye health services.
Melbourne: Indigenous Eye Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population Health
Wright HR, Keeffe JE, Taylor HR (2010)
Barriers to the implementation of the SAFE strategy to combat hyperendemic trachoma in Australia.
Ophthalmic Epidemiology; 17(6): 349-359
2009
Roper KG, Taylor HR (2009)
Comparison of clinical and photographic assessment of trachoma.
British Journal of Ophthalmology; (Epub ahead of print):
Taylor HR, National Indigenous Eye Health Survey Team (2009)
National Indigenous eye health survey: minum barreng (tracking eyes): full report.
Melbourne: Indigenous Eye Health Unit, The University of Melbourne
This report details the findings of the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey which was conducted in 2008 to define:
- the extent of vision loss in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- the causes of vision loss in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- the impact of vision loss in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations.
The survey was designed to plan and prioritise the effective delivery of eye care for Indigenous people. Overall 2,883 Indigenous people were examined. The report records the extent of eye health problems such as refractive error, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, blindness and trachoma.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Taylor HR (2009)
Trichiasis: out of mind, out of sight [letter to the editor].
Australian Journal of Rural Health; 17(3): 171
Tellis B, Fotis K, Dunn R, Keeffe J, Taylor H (2009)
Trachoma surveillance report 2008.
Melbourne, Vic: National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit, Centre for Eye Research Australia
Wright HR, Keeffe JE, Taylor HR (2009)
Trachoma, cataracts and uncorrected refractive error are still important contributors to visual morbidity in two remote Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory, Australia.
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology; 37(6): 550-557
2008
Coffey C (2008)
Centre for Disease Control guidelines for management of trachoma in the Northern Territory.
Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 15(2): 1-4
This article summarises the Guidelines for trachoma management in the Northern Territory, which were adapted from the Communicable Disease Network Australia (CDNA) national Guidelines for the public health management of trachoma in Australia 2006 to reflect the unique needs of the Northern Territory (NT). The CDNA guidelines provide a minimum best practice framework for the management of trachoma.
The article provides information for those working in the fields of eye health, environmental health and health promotion in the NT, including:
- training and surveillance
- management
- surgery
- antibiotics
- face washing
- environmental health and health promotion
- data collection
- resources
- Help stop trachoma poster developed by the Western Australian Department of Health
- Trachoma kit
- Trachoma eye sickness flip chart.
Abstract adapted from the Centre for Disease Control, NT
Couzos S, Murray R (2008)
Aboriginal primary health care: an evidence-based approach.
3rd ed. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press
Aboriginal Primary Health Care is a definitive guide to best-practice management of the major health problems facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The text is intended to assist health practitioners, policy makers and communities in influencing health determinants, it also advocates for overcoming inertia to change and to strengthen health care provision within a human rights context.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Couzos S, Taylor H, Wright H (2008)
Trachoma.
In: Couzos S, Murray R, eds. Aboriginal primary health care: an evidence-based approach. 3rd ed. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press: 708-731
McDonald E, Bailie R, Brewster D, Morris P (2008)
Are hygiene and public health interventions likely to improve outcomes for Australian Aboriginal children living in remote communities? A systematic review of the literature.
BMC Public Health; 8: 153
Retrieved 8 May 2008 from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/8/153
Porter M, Mak D, Chidlow G, Harnett GB, Smith DW (2008)
The molecular epidemiology of ocular chlamydia trachomatis infections in Western Australia: implications for trachoma control.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; 78(3): 514-517
Roper K, Michel C-EC, Kelly PM, Taylor HR (2008)
Prevalence of trachoma in Aboriginal communities in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory in 2007 [letter].
Medical Journal of Australia; 189(7): 409
Rubin T, Franklin R, Scarr J, Peden A (2008)
Facilities, program and services for water safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in rural and remote Australia: issues paper.
Sydney: Australian Water Safety Council
Rubin T, Franklin RC, Scarr J, Peden A (2008)
Swimming pools in remote communities: an opportunity for more than getting wet.
intouch; 25(3): 4-5
Taylor HR (2008)
Trachoma: a blinding scourge from the bronze age to the twenty-first century.
East Melbourne: Centre for Eye Research Australia
Tellis B, Dunn R, Keeffe J, Taylor H (2008)
Trachoma surveillance report 2007.
Melbourne: National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit, Centre for Eye Research Australia
Tellis B, Keeffe JE, Taylor HR (2008)
Trachoma surveillance annual report, 2007: a report by the National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit.
Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 32(4): 388-399
The Chronicle (2008)
The Canteen Creek Snot Campaign: an innovative approach to trachoma.
The Chronicle; 11(3): 25-26
2007
Jones J, Buzzacott T, Briscoe G, Murray R, Murray R, Hollows G, Smith L (2007)
Beyond Sandy Blight: five Aboriginal workers' experiences on the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program, 1976-1978 and beyond.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
This book gives an insiders' account of the National trachoma eye health program for Aboriginal Australians, led by Fred Hollows during the 1970s. It is the first time Aboriginal members from the original team have written of their experiences of the health program which occurred over 30 years ago. The five chapters describe the authors' personal accounts of the groundbreaking program which acknowledged Aboriginal culture and respect. The book documents the substandard living conditions of the Aboriginal people and the obstacles the team faced while providing appropriate health services to the Aboriginal people. Beyond sandy blight also provides an insight into how empowering and rewarding the experience was for the team members.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Kain S, Morgan W, Riley D, Dorizzi K, Hogarth G, Yu DY (2007)
Prevalence of trachoma in school children of remote Western Australian communities between 1992 and 2003.
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology; 35(2): 119-123
Roper K (2007)
Trachoma: new advances in treatment.
Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 14(4): 24
Schultz R, Coffey C, Krause V, Taylor H, Currie B (2007)
Treatment of trachoma in small babies.
Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin; 14(4): 22-23
Tellis B, Dunn R, Keeffe J, Taylor H (2007)
Trachoma surveillance report 2006.
Canberra: National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit
Tellis B, Keeffe JE, Taylor HR (2007)
Surveillance report for active trachoma, 2006: National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit.
Communicable Diseases Intelligence; 31(4): 366-374
Wright HR (2007)
Trachoma in Australia: an evaluation of the SAFE strategy and the barriers to its implementation.
Doctor of Philosophy thesis, University of Melbourne: Melbourne
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