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Alexandra LC Martiniuk
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Open AccessReview of Aboriginal child health services in remote Western Australia identifies challenges and informs solutions
Despite a national focus on closing the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child health outcomes in Australia, there remain significant challenges, including provision of health services in very remote ...
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Open AccessThe picture talk project: Aboriginal community input on consent for research
The consent and community engagement process for research with Indigenous communities is rarely evaluated. Research protocols are not always collaborative, inclusive or culturally respectful. If participants d...
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Open AccessA knowledge translation intervention to improve tuberculosis care and outcomes in Malawi: a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial
Lay health workers (LHWs) play a pivotal role in addressing the high TB burden in Malawi. LHWs report lack of training to be a key barrier to their role as TB care providers. Given the cost of traditional off-...
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Open AccessHIV behavioural interventions targeted towards older adults: a systematic review
The increasing number of people living with HIV aged 50 years and older has been recognised around the world yet non-pharmacologic HIV behavioural and cognitive interventions specifically targeted to older adu...
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Open AccessForeign-born health workers in Australia: an analysis of census data
Provide an up-to-date national picture of the medical, midwifery and nursing workforce distribution in Australia with a focus on overseas immigration and on production sustainability challenges.
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Open AccessDevelopment of a reliable questionnaire to assist in the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)
A battery of clinical assessments was used in the Lililwan* Project, Australia’s first population-based Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) prevalence study, conducted in the remote Fitzroy Valley, Western...
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Open AccessThe pattern of injury and poisoning in South East Iran
Injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and even more so in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Iran is a LMIC and lacks information regarding injury for program and policy purpose...
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Open AccessInvolving expert patients in antiretroviral treatment provision in a tertiary referral hospital HIV clinic in Malawi
Current antiretroviral treatment (ART) models in Africa are labour intensive and require a high number of skilled staff. In the context of constraints in human resources for health, task shifting is considered...
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Open AccessBrain Gains: a literature review of medical missions to low and middle-income countries
Healthcare professionals’ participation in short-term medical missions to low and middle income countries (LMIC) to provide healthcare has become common over the past 50 years yet little is known about the qua...
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Open AccessCritical care resources in the Solomon Islands: a cross-sectional survey
There are minimal data available on critical care case-mix, care processes and outcomes in lower and middle income countries (LMICs). The objectives of this paper were to gather data in the Solomon Islands in ...
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Open Access"I do what I have to do to survive": An investigation into the perceptions, experiences and economic considerations of women engaged in sex work in Northern Namibia
There is little published research investigating sex work in Namibia, particularly in rural areas. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to determine the views of women engaged in sex work in the Oshakati area ...
