ClinicalKey - supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health - NAIDOC Week 2022

National NAIDOC Week (July 3-10) celebrates and recognises the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth. Elsevier has put together a number of ClinicalKey and ClinicalKey for Nursing resources for CKN as an Indigenous health toolkit, proudly supporting Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in gaining access to high quality healthcare.

Across Australia, 3.2% of the national population identify as Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander. CKN supports ‘closing the gap’ in health inequality by ensuring greater response to the needs of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

This toolkit brings you a range of evidence-based content as an introduction to the extensive information available to Queensland clinicians through CKN’s state-wide subscriptions to ClinicalKey and ClinicalKey for Nursing. Providing access to quality information for all Hospital and Health Services and Queensland Ambulance Service employees, is part of our commitment to assisting with clinical decision making and delivery of care for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 

Key Facts

The 2021 Summary of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status provides the following insights into health determinants and statistics surrounding common medical conditions across these communities:

• In 2019-20, 581,163 hospitalisations identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.
   
• High rates of hospitalisations related to kidney disease (including repeat admissions for the same patients), injuries, pregnancy and birth, digestive conditions, and respiratory conditions.
   
• Many of these hospitalisations (72 per 1,000) may have been preventable with appropriate care and early management.

Trending Journal Articles available via ClinicalKey and ClinicalKey for Nursing

• Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: A retrospective study assessing patient characteristics and outcome. 
  Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. Published 2022
   
• Estimating pneumococcal vaccine coverage among Australian Indigenous children and children with medically at-risk conditions using record linkage. 
  Vaccine. Published 2021
   
• Indigenous Australians have a greater prevalence of heart, stroke, and vascular disease, are younger at death, with higher hospitalisation and more aeromedical retrievals from remote regions. 
  EClinicalMedicine. Published 2021
   
• Sleep health in Indigenous Australian children: a systematic review. 
  Sleep Medicine. Published 2021
   
• Factors influencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s breastfeeding practice: A scoping narrative review. 
  Women and Birth. Article in Press
   
• Time to listen: Chronic disease yarning with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in remote Australia. 
  Collegian. Published 2021
   
• Implementing Birthing on Country services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families: RISE Framework. 
  Women and Birth. Published 2019
   
• The experiences of Australian indigenous nursing students: A phenomenological study. 
  Nurse Education in Practice. Published 2019 

Clinical Overviews