Enablers and barriers to non-dispensing pharmacist integration into the primary health care teams of Aboriginal community-controlled health services.

Background: The primary health care management of chronic disease affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples requires healthcare quality and equity demands to be met, and systems that foster better team-based care. Non-dispensing pharmacists (NDPs) integrated within primary healthcare settings can enhance the quality of patient care, although factors that enable or challenge integration within these settings need to be better understood.

Objectives: To investigate enabling factors and barriers influencing integration of NDPs within Aboriginal community-controlled health services delivering primary health care.

Primary Health Networks and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

The Australian Government has established that the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is a priority for the newly established 31 Primary Health Networks (PHNs). Efforts to reduce the high hospitalisation rates of Aboriginal people will require PHNs to build formal participatory structures with Aboriginal health organisations to support best practice service models. There are precedents as to how PHNs can build formal partnerships with Aboriginal community controlled health services (ACCHSs), establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander steering committee to guide strategic plan development, and work towards optimising comprehensive primary care.

Increasing access to sexual health care for rural and regional young people: Similarities and differences in the views of young people and service providers.

Objective: This study aims to describe the views of sexual health service providers on access issues for young people and consider them together with the views of young people themselves.

Design: A cross-sectional mixed-methods study design involving semi-structured interviews with health service providers and an electronic survey with young people.

Setting: Four towns in rural and regional Queensland, Australia.

Young people's perceptions of sexual and reproductive health in regional and rural Queensland: capturing the views of adolescents through reference groups and a user-friendly electronic survey.

Unlabelled: Background Young people in regional and rural Queensland have difficulty accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Young people's views regarding barriers and enablers for accessing SRH services and markers of quality are largely unknown.

Methods: Young people's perceptions regarding SRH services are explored through a cross-sectional study via eight reference group meetings and an electronic survey in four sites: Atherton Tablelands, Rockhampton, Toowoomba and Townsville.

The benefits of a tailor-made pilot primary health-care course for Indigenous high school students in remote Queensland.

Objective: This study highlights the benefits of a tailor-made course for an Indigenous high school in a remote North Queensland community.

Design: Qualitative research study using a Grounded Theory approach to allow thematic analysis of participant's responses to a researcher-administered, pre-defined, semistructured questionnaire.

Setting: Remote community college in Abergowrie, North Queensland.

The transformative potential of young motherhood for disadvantaged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Townsville, Australia.

Objective: To explore attitudes to pregnancy and parenthood among a group of Indigenous young people in Townsville, Australia.

Design And Participants: Mixed methods and a cross-sectional design involving Indigenous women from a Young Mums Group designing the research instruments and acting as peer interviewers. Data were collected in 2004 from young Indigenous people who had never been pregnant (171 students at three high schools and 15 people at a homeless youth shelter) using a computer-assisted self-administered survey; from 59 of this group who also participated in single sex focus group discussions; and from 10 pregnant and parenting young women in individual semi-structured interviews.

Attitudes and behaviours of young Indigenous people in Townsville concerning relationships, sex and contraception: the "U Mob Yarn Up" project.

Objective: To gain some understanding of the attitudes and behaviours of Indigenous young people in Townsville concerning relationships, contraception and safe sex.

Design: Cross-sectional study using a computer-assisted self-administered survey and single-sex focus group discussions designed by a Young Mums' Group operating on participatory action principles and acting as peer interviewers.

Participants And Setting: 171 Indigenous students in Years 9-11 at three high schools and 15 residents of a homeless youth shelter in Townsville, Queensland, 27 April - 8 December 2004.