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| Joan CunninghamSummaryAffiliation: Menzies School of Health Research Country: Australia Publications
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Socio-demographic factors and psychological distress in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian adults aged 18-64 years: analysis of national survey dataJoan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, PO Box 41096, Casuarina, Darwin, NT 0811, Australia
BMC Public Health 12:95. 2012..abstract:..- Plasma carotenoids are associated with socioeconomic status in an urban Indigenous population: an observational studyAllison Hodge
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:76. 2011..Our aim was to identify factors associated with plasma carotenoids as a marker of fruit and vegetable intake among urban dwelling Indigenous Australians, with a particular focus on SES... - Abdominal obesity and other risk factors largely explain the high CRP in indigenous Australians relative to the general population, but not gender differences: a cross-sectional studyAllison M Hodge
University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine, St Vincent s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:700. 2010..We compared CRP levels in Indigenous Australians and the general population, accounting for obesity and other risk factors... - Study Protocol--Improving Access to Kidney Transplants (IMPAKT): a detailed account of a qualitative study investigating barriers to transplant for Australian Indigenous people with end-stage kidney diseaseJeannie Devitt
The George Institute for International Health, PO Box M201, Missenden Road Sydney, NSW, 2050 Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 8:31. 2008.... - Socioeconomic disparities in self-reported arthritis for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aged 18-64Joan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, PO Box 41096, Casuarina, NT 0811, Australia
Int J Public Health 56:295-304. 2011..To examine socioeconomic disparities in arthritis among non-remote Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian adults aged 18-64... - Study protocol--diabetes and related conditions in urban indigenous people in the Darwin, Australia region: aims, methods and participation in the DRUID StudyJoan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research and Institute of Advances Studies, Charles Darwin University, PO Box 41096, Casuarina, NT 0811, Australia
BMC Public Health 6:8. 2006..The DRUID Study (Diabetes and Related conditions in Urban Indigenous people in the Darwin region) was designed to address this knowledge gap... - Socioeconomic status and self-reported asthma in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian adults aged 18-64 years: analysis of national survey dataJoan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, PO Box 41096, Casuarina, Northern Territory 0811, Australia
Int J Equity Health 9:18. 2010..Asthma is more common among Indigenous than non-Indigenous Australian adults, but little is known about socioeconomic patterning of asthma within the Indigenous population, or whether it is similar to the non-Indigenous population... - Socioeconomic disparities in self-reported cardiovascular disease for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian adults: analysis of national survey dataJoan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, PO Box 41096, Casuarina, Northern Territory 0811, Australia
Popul Health Metr 8:31. 2010..Little is known about the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among Indigenous Australians, or whether any such relationship is similar to that in non-Indigenous Australians... - Socio-economic gradients in self-reported diabetes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aged 18-64Joan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research and Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory
Aust N Z J Public Health 34:S18-24. 2010..To examine and compare socio-economic gradients in diabetes among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians... - Comparing indigenous health status across regions: a numerical example of uncertaintyJoan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:497-9. 2002..To illustrate how regional variation in data quality could explain some or all of the apparent regional differences in the health status of Indigenous Australians... - Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures among Australian hospital patients identified as indigenousJoan Cunningham
Menzies School ofHealth Research, Casuarina, NT
Med J Aust 176:58-62. 2002.... - Perceived weight versus Body Mass Index among urban Aboriginal Australians: do perceptions and measurements match?Joan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research and Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 32:135-8. 2008..To examine the relationship between perceived body weight and measured Body Mass Index (BMI) among urban Aboriginal Australian adults... - Describing and analysing primary health care system support for chronic illness care in Indigenous communities in Australia's Northern Territory - use of the Chronic Care ModelDamin Si
Menzies School of Health Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 8:112. 2008..Improving the understanding of how Indigenous primary care systems are organised to deliver chronic illness care will inform efforts to improve the quality of care for Indigenous people... - Estimating cancer incidence in Indigenous AustraliansXiaohua Zhang
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory 0811
Aust N Z J Public Health 35:477-85. 2011..To assess data quality of cancer registrations for Indigenous Australians and produce reliable national Indigenous cancer incidence statistics... - Improving organisational systems for diabetes care in Australian Indigenous communitiesRoss Bailie
Menzies School of Health Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 7:67. 2007.... - Renal transplantation for Indigenous Australians: identifying the barriers to equitable accessAlan Cass
Menzies School of Health Research, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia
Ethn Health 8:111-9. 2003..To examine whether disparities are due to a lower rate of acceptance onto the waiting list and/or a lower rate of moving from the list to transplantation... - Urban disadvantage and delayed nephrology referral in AustraliaAlan Cass
Menzies School of Health Research, P O Box 41096, Casuarina, NT 0811, Australia
Health Place 9:175-82. 2003..This may indicate inequitable access to optimal pre-ESRD care... - Socioeconomic status and diabetes among urban Indigenous Australians aged 15-64 years in the DRUID studyJoan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research and Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University
Ethn Health 13:23-37. 2008..Little is known about the relationship between SES and diabetes among Indigenous populations in developed countries... - Exploring the pathways leading from disadvantage to end-stage renal disease for indigenous AustraliansAlan Cass
Menzies School of Health Research, PO Box 41096, Darwin, Casarina NT 0811, Australia
Soc Sci Med 58:767-85. 2004.... - Fibrinogen and associated risk factors in a high-risk population: urban Indigenous Australians, the DRUID StudyLouise J Maple-Brown
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
Cardiovasc Diabetol 9:69. 2010..We studied levels of fibrinogen and its cross-sectional relationship with traditional and non-traditional cardiovascular risk factors in an urban Indigenous Australian cohort... - The relationship between the incidence of end-stage renal disease and markers of socioeconomic disadvantageAlan Cass
Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory
N S W Public Health Bull 13:147-51. 2002 - Incidence, aetiology, and outcomes of cancer in Indigenous peoples in AustraliaJoan Cunningham
Menzies School of Health Research and Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, Australia
Lancet Oncol 9:585-95. 2008..Effective tobacco control programmes, improvements across a range of health services, and meaningful Indigenous engagement are all needed to decrease the burden of cancer in Indigenous Australians... - Delivery of preventive health services to Indigenous adults: response to a systems-oriented primary care quality improvement interventionDamin Si
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
Med J Aust 187:453-7. 2007..To describe changes in delivery of preventive services among adults in Aboriginal communities that occurred in association with a systems-oriented intervention... - The social determinants of being an Indigenous non-smokerDavid P Thomas
Menzies School of Health Research, Northern Territory, and Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 32:110-6. 2008..To examine the association between various social factors and being a non-smoker in a national survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 and over... - Long-term trends in Indigenous deaths from chronic diseases in the Northern Territory: a foot on the brake, a foot on the acceleratorDavid P Thomas
Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, NT
Med J Aust 185:145-9. 2006..To examine trends in Northern Territory Indigenous mortality from chronic diseases other than cancer... - Complications of diabetes in urban Indigenous Australians: the DRUID studyLouise Maple-Brown
Menzies School of Health Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, NT, Australia
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 80:455-62. 2008..To accurately assess the management and complications of type 2 diabetes in urban Indigenous Australians and compare the risk of complications with a general Australian population (AusDiab Study)... - Exploring the characteristics of the research workforce in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthAlice R Rumbold
Menzies School of Health Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory
Aust N Z J Public Health 32:12-8. 2008..This study was conducted to better understand the characteristics of current and past researchers in Indigenous health in Australia and the factors that may influence decisions about working in this field... - Delayed referral to a nephrologist: outcomes among patients who survive at least one year on dialysisAlan Cass
Menzies School of Health Research, PO Box 41096, Casuarina, NT 0811, Australia
Med J Aust 177:135-8. 2002..To investigate whether late referral to a nephrologist of patients with chronic renal insufficiency influences the likelihood of both transplantation and mortality among those who survive at least one year on dialysis... - High rates of albuminuria but not of low eGFR in urban indigenous Australians: the DRUID studyLouise J Maple-Brown
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:346. 2011..We studied prevalence and factors associated with markers of kidney disease in an urban Indigenous Australian cohort, and compared results with those for the general Australian population... - Assessing health centre systems for guiding improvement in diabetes careDamin Si
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, PO Box 41096, Darwin, NT, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 5:56. 2005..The aims of this study were to assess the status of systems for chronic illness care in Aboriginal community health centres, and to explore whether more developed systems were associated with better quality of diabetes care... - Impact of dyslipidaemia on arterial structure and function in urban indigenous AustraliansLouise J Maple-Brown
Menzies School of Health Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
Atherosclerosis 202:248-54. 2009..We studied arterial structure and function in 144 volunteers aged 15-66 years to assess the role of dyslipidaemia and other traditional vascular risk factors on cardiovascular risk in young and older urban Indigenous Australians... - Improvements in Indigenous mortality in the Northern Territory over four decadesJohn R Condon
Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory
Aust N Z J Public Health 28:445-51. 2004..Very little information is available about improvements over time, or lack thereof, in the health status of Indigenous Australians... - Long-term trends in cancer mortality for Indigenous Australians in the Northern TerritoryJohn R Condon
Menzies School of Health Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT
Med J Aust 180:504-7. 2004..To examine long-term trends in cancer mortality in the Indigenous people of the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia... - End-stage renal disease in indigenous Australians: a disease of disadvantageAlan Cass
Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, NT, Australia
Ethn Dis 12:373-8. 2002..To determine the relation between area level indicators of socioeconomic disadvantage and the regional incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in indigenous Australians... - Cardiovascular disease risk profile and microvascular complications of diabetes: comparison of Indigenous cohorts with diabetes in Australia and CanadaLouise J Maple-Brown
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
Cardiovasc Diabetol 11:30. 2012..abstract:.. - A review of the impact of antenatal care for Australian Indigenous women and attempts to strengthen these servicesAlice R Rumbold
Menzies School of Health Research, PO Box 41096, Casuarina, NT, 0811, Australia
Matern Child Health J 12:83-100. 2008..To review evaluations of changes in the delivery of antenatal care for Australian Indigenous women and the impact on care utilization and quality, birth outcomes and women's views about care... - Placing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mortality in an international contextYin Paradies
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health and Menzies, School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:11-6. 2002..However, in contrast to many developing countries, low life expectancy of Indigenous Australians is the result of relatively high and early adult mortality, rather than high infant mortality... - Development and validation of the Measure of Indigenous Racism Experiences (MIRE)Yin C Paradies
Menzies School of Health Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
Int J Equity Health 7:9. 2008.... - Late referral to a nephrologist reduces access to renal transplantationAlan Cass
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 42:1043-9. 2003..Late referral is associated with higher morbidity and worse long-term survival rates. The authors examined the effect of late referral on access to renal transplantation... - Cause of death in patients with end-stage renal disease: assessing concordance of death certificates with registry reportsShu Qin Li
Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services, Northern Territory University
Aust N Z J Public Health 27:419-24. 2003..Information from these sources was not directly comparable. Neither dataset provided a complete picture of renal disease as a cause of death in Australia... - Australian nephrologists' attitudes towards living kidney donationJoan Cunningham
Nephrol Dial Transplant 21:1178-83. 2006..Meeting the growing demand for kidney transplantation will require an increased supply of both live and deceased donor kidneys. We should develop, evaluate and implement best-practice approaches to achieve this... - Barriers to access by Indigenous Australians to kidney transplantation: the IMPAKT studyAlan Cass
The George Institute for International Health, Sydney, Australia
Nephrology (Carlton) 9:S144-6. 2004..It will systematically examine each of the steps a new dialysis patient must negotiate in order to receive a transplant. Each of these steps can become a barrier... - Bridging the treatment gap for Indigenous Australians. Demands for efficiency should not be met at the expense of equityJoan Cunningham
Med J Aust 182:505-6. 2005..Demands for efficiency should not be met at the expense of equity... - Diversity of primary health care providers for urban indigenous AustraliansJoan Cunningham
Aust N Z J Public Health 30:580-1. 2006 - The use of psychosocial criteria in Australian patient selection guidelines for kidney transplantationKate Anderson
The George Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Soc Sci Med 64:2107-14. 2007..The priority given to such criteria in transplant guidelines requires attention and debate... - Decision-making about suitability for kidney transplantation: Results of a national survey of Australian nephrologistsAlan Cass
The George Institute for International Health, Central Clinical School, University of Sydney, and Statewide Renal Services, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nephrology (Carlton) 12:299-304. 2007..Given the reduced access to transplantation for Indigenous Australians, the role of patient's ethnicity was of particular interest... - Diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors in urban Indigenous adults: Results from the DRUID studyKerin O'Dea
Department of Medicine University of Melbourne, St Vincent s Hospital, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 80:483-9. 2008..Little is known about the burden of diabetes and related conditions among urban Indigenous Australians. The DRUID study was established to address this important information gap... - Does isochromosome 7q mandate bone marrow transplant in children with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome?Joan Cunningham
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
Br J Haematol 119:1062-9. 2002..Our studies indicate that i(7)(q10) is a relatively benign rearrangement and that it is not advisable to offer allogeneic transplants to SDS children with i(7)(q10) alone in the absence of other clinical signs of disease progression...