An investigation of the barriers to infectious disease interventions in Indigenous Australian communities

Miller, Adrian (2018) An investigation of the barriers to infectious disease interventions in Indigenous Australian communities. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

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Abstract

This research focused on two infectious diseases and used them as exemplars to provide a better understanding of barriers to effective interventions for Indigenous Australians. Key messages and five common principles were drawn from publications to inform communities, health staff and government. It was a national investigation using qualitative research methods.

Item ID: 65214
Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Keywords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal health, Australian health care system, CD8 T cells, chronic disease, community engagement, containment strategies, disease control, disparity, epidemiology, H1N1, HLA types, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous health, infectious disease, influenza infection, institutional racism, mass-drug administration, medical care, medical policy, methodology, National Action Plan for Human Influenza Pandemic, national health services, neglected tropical disease, pandemic influenza, parasitic infection, participatory action research, policy, public health, soil-transmitted helminths, Stongyloides fuelleborni, Strongyloides kellyi, Strongyloides stercoralis, Strongyloides, Strongyloidiasis, T-cell receptor, Torres Strait Islander health
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Copyright Information: Copyright © 2018 Adrian Miller.
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This is a thesis by publication. Published versions of articles included as chapters 2.5.1, 3.5.1, 3.5.3, 3.6.1 and 4.7 have been redacted from the thesis due to copyright restrictions.

Fourteen publications arising from this thesis are stored in ResearchOnline@JCU. Please see the Related URLs. The publications are:

Chapter 2.5.1: Miller, Adrian, and Speare, Richard (2009) Health care for Indigenous Australians. In: Willis, Eileen, Reynolds, Louise, and Keleher, Helen, (eds.) Understanding the Australain Health Care System. Elsevier, Chatswood, NSW, Australia, pp. 131-142.

Chapter 3.5.1: Page, Wendy, Shield, Jennifer, O'Donahoo, Francis, Miller, Adrian, Judd, Jenni, and Speare, Rick (2016) Strongyloidiasis in Oceania. In: Loukas, Alex, (ed.) Neglected Tropical Diseases - Oceania. Neglected Tropical Diseases . Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 69-99.

Chapter 3.5.2: Miller, Adrian, Smith, Michelle L., Judd, Jennifer, and Speare, Richard (2014) Strongyloides stercoralis: systematic review of barriers to controlling strongyloidiasis for Australian Indigenous communities. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 8 (9). e3141. pp. 1-11.

Chapter 3.5.3: Speare, Richard, Miller, Adrian, and Page, Wendy A. (2015) Strongyloidiasis: a case for notification in Australia? Medical Journal of Australia, 202 (10). pp. 523-524.

Chapter 3.6.1: Miller, Adrian, and Durrheim, David (2010) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities forgotten in new Australian National Action Plan for Human Influenza Pandemic: "Ask us, listen to us, share with us". Medical Journal of Australia, 193 (6). pp. 316-317.

Chapter 3.6.2: Massey, P.D., Miller, A., Durrheim, D.N., Speare, R., Saggers, S., and Eastwood, K. (2009) Pandemic influenza containment and the cultural and social context of indigenous communities. Rural and Remote Health, 9.

Chapter 3.7.1: Quinones-Parra, Sergio, Grant, Emma, Loh, Liyen, Nguyen, Thi H.O., Campbell, Kristy-Anne, Tong, Steven Y.C., Miller, Adrian, Doherty, Peter C., Vijaykrishna, Dhanasekaran, Rossjohn, Jamie, Gras, Stephanie, and Kedzierska, Katherine (2014) Preexisting CD8+ T-cell immunity to the H7N9 influenza A virus varies across ethnicities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (3). pp. 1049-1054.

Chapter 4.6: Miller, A., Massey, P.D., Judd, J., Kelly, J., Durrheim, D.N., Clough, A.R., Speare, R., and Saggers, S. (2015) Using a participatory action research framework to listen to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia about pandemic influenza. Rural and Remote Health, 15. 2923. pp. 1-10.

Chapter 4.7: Evans, Mike, Miller, Adrian, Hutchinson, Peter, and Dingwall, Carlene (2014) Decolonizing research practice: Indigenous methodologies, Aboriginal methods, and knowledge/knowing. In: Leavy, Patricia, (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 179-191.

Chapter 5.3.1: Miller, Adrian, Smith, Michelle L., Judd, Jenni A., and Speare, Rick (2018) Policy implications for controlling communicable diseases in Indigenous communities: case of Strongyloidiasis in Australia. Aboriginal Policy Studies, 7 (1). pp. 148-179.

Chapter 5.3.2: Miller, Adrian, Young, Elizebeth L., Tye, Valarie, Cody, Robert, Muscat, Melody, Saunders, Vicki, Smith, Michelle L., Judd, Jenni A., and Speare, Rick (2018) A community-directed integrated Strongyloides control program in Queensland, Australia. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 3 (2). 48.

Chapter 6.4.1: Massey, Peter D., Miller, Adrian, Saggers, Sherry, Durrheim, David N., Speare, Richard, Taylor, Kylie, Pearce, Glenn, Odo, Travis, Broome, Jennifer, Judd, Jenni, Kelly, Jenny, Blackley, Magdalena, and Clough, Alan (2011) Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and the development of pandemic influenza containment strategies: community voices and community control. Health Policy, 103 (2-3). pp. 184-190.

Chapter 6.4.2: Valkenburg, Sophie A., Josephs, Tracy M., Clemens, E. Bridie, Grant, Emma J., Nguyen, Thi H.O., Wang, George C., Price, David A., Miller, Adrian, Tong, Steven Y.C., Thomas, Paul G., Doherty, Peter C., Rossjohn, Jamie, Gras, Stephanie, and Kedzierska, Katherine (2016) Molecular basis for universal HLA-A*0201–restricted CD8+ T-cell immunity against influenza viruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (116). pp. 4440-4445.

Chapter 6.4.3: Clemens, E. Bridie, Grant, Emma J., Wang, Zhongfang, Gras, Stephanie, Tipping, Peta, Rossjohn, Jamie, Miller, Adrian, Tong, Steven Y.C., and Kedzierska, Katherine (2016) Towards identification of immune and genetic correlates of severe influenza disease in Indigenous Australians. Immunology and Cell Biology, 94 (4). pp. 367-377.

Date Deposited: 30 Nov 2020 03:42
FoR Codes: 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1108 Medical Microbiology > 110803 Medical Parasitology @ 30%
11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1108 Medical Microbiology > 110804 Medical Virology @ 30%
11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1117 Public Health and Health Services > 111701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health @ 40%
SEO Codes: 92 HEALTH > 9203 Indigenous Health > 920302 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Health Status and Outcomes @ 35%
92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920109 Infectious Diseases @ 35%
92 HEALTH > 9204 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) > 920499 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified @ 30%
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