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This review emphasises the need to gain evidence for the mechanisms linking early racism exposure to adverse health outcomes in later life

In the ongoing debate on optimum methods for identification of Indigenous people within linked administrative data, few studies have examined the impacts of method on population counts and outcomes in family-based linkage studies of Aboriginal children.

This study highlights a range of unique profiles that can be used for improving the early development of young Aboriginal children

Apgar score, birth weight, sex, socioeconomic status, and maternal ethnicity, in addition to gestational age, have pronounced impacts on disability-free survival.

Mothers that are underweight prior to or in early pregnancy are at a moderately increased risk of placental abruption

This study aimed to examine the pattern of stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate disparities over time in Western Australia

We describe the application of a participatory action research methodology that is grounded in Aboriginal worldviews

Many of the mental health issues that women develop earlier in life are chronic at the time of conception, during pregnancy and at birth

Australia does not have a national strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent health and as a result, policy and programming actions are fragmented and may not be responsive to needs. Efforts to date have also rarely engaged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in co-designing solutions. The Roadmap Project aims to work in partnership with young people to define priority areas of health and well-being need and establish the corresponding developmentally appropriate, evidence-based actions.

Fiona Pete Stanley Azzopardi FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv HonFRACGP HonMD HonFRCPCH HonLLB (honoris causa) PhD, FRACP