Aboriginal health: agreement between general practitioners and patients on their health risk status and screening history.

Objective: To examine agreement between patients' self-report and general practitioners' perception of their patients' health risk status and screening history.

Methods: Patients attending an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service self-reported via survey their health risk status and screening history, while waiting to see their general practitioner (GP). Following the consultation the GP completed a corresponding survey.

A cross-sectional survey assessing the acceptability and feasibility of self-report electronic data collection about health risks from patients attending an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service.

Background: Aboriginal Australians experience significantly worse health and a higher burden of chronic disease than non-Aboriginal Australians. Electronic self-report data collection is a systematic means of collecting data about health risk factors which could help to overcome screening barriers and assist in the provision of preventive health care. Yet this approach has not been tested in an Aboriginal health care setting.

The risk status, screening history and health concerns of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people attending an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service.

Introduction And Aims: Primary health-care services need to maximise prevention activities to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This study determined Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's risk status and screening history for cardiovascular, diabetes and cancer, and identified opportunities for prevention based on patient's health concerns.

Design And Methods: Consenting adult patients attending an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service completed interview surveys.

Strategies for increasing high-quality intervention research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: views of leading researchers.

Objective: To identify policy strategies that are perceived by researchers active in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health as effective in increasing the amount of high-quality intervention research undertaken in this field.

Design And Setting: A cross-sectional study using a web-based survey was emailed to researchers based in clinical, public health and other academic institutions.

Participants: Researchers who had published more than once in Aboriginal health between 1 January 2005 and 1 August 2009, based on a MEDLINE search.