Volume 9 Issue 3

▪ Keyword : Editorial

▪ Content : Editorial

▪ Keyword : Homelands Movement, indigenous mortality, NACCHO, priorities for improvement

▪ Content : In spite of much effort over the past 25 years, the life expectancy of the indigenous people remains nearly 20 years behind the non-Aboriginal white population of Australia. These figures compare unfavourably with the improved life expectancy over the past 25 years of other indigenous peoples, such as the New Zealand Maori and the American Indian populations.

▪ Keyword : Aborigines, dietary levels, food consumption, health, nutrition, physique

▪ Content : During the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948, a nutritionist (Margaret McArthur), a medical officer (Brian Billington), a biochemist (Kelvin Hodges) and also the ‘flying dentist’ (John Moody) observed the nutrition and health of Aborigines in the settlements on Groote Eylandt, at Yirrkala and at Oenpelli, Northern Territory. The results of their research were published in the Records of the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land Volume 2 Anthropology and Nutrition. (Melbourne University Press, 1960).

▪ Keyword : Australian Aborigines, ethnobotany, hunter–gatherer, nomad, nutrition

▪ Content : During 1948, scientists (an anthropologist, a nutritionist and a plant ecologist) of the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land observed the daily activities of families of nomadic Aborigines in the monsoonal climate of Groote Eylandt, Bickerton Island, Port Bradshaw, Yirrkala and Oenpelli, Northern Territory.

▪ Keyword : Aboriginal Australians, cattle stations, elderly, food intake, indigenous food culture

▪ Content : Between 1988 and 1993 the International Union of Nutritional Sciences Committee ‘Nutrition and Ageing’established the international ‘Food Habits in Later Life’ (FHILL) Program.1,2 The FHILL program documented current and distant past food habits of more than 2000 Caucasian and Asian elderly people, which also included 54 older Aboriginal Australians in a community called Junjuwa in the Fitzroy Valley, Kimberley region, Western Australia. The program primarily used a quantitative food frequency questionnaire to collect food intake data

▪ Keyword : Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, breast-feeding, infants, urban, weaning practices

▪ Content : The aim of this survey was aimed to determine current breast-feeding and infant-feeding practices among a community of urban indigenous Australians in Brisbane, the largest city of Queensland, in Australia.

▪ Keyword : Aboriginal Australians, apolipoprotein (a), independent variables, lipoprotein (a), phenotypes

▪ Content : Factors contributing to the variation in plasma lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)) concentration were surveyed in an Aboriginal population (175 men and 219 women), aged 24–86 years, from Western Australia. The plasma Lp(a) levels were highly skewed towards low levels in this population, with a median of 84 mg/L and a mean of 166 mg/L.