Oceania

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Environmental Health Behavior: Concepts, Determinants, and Impacts, Volume , 1 January 2024

This chapter aligns with UN SDG goals 11 by discussing how smart cities can influence health determinants and quality of life in sustainable communities.
Countries in the tropics, and populations disadvantaged based on gender, ethnicity, and caste, are more vulnerable to extreme heat. This Commentary discusses interventions to help address inequity and deal with extreme heat.

The authors point out that Mātauranga Māori/Māori knowledge emphasises that pain and its healing should be considered multidimensional, incorporating physical, mental and relational components, existing in the spiritual realm and incorporating links between people, places, the past and future. They suggest that pain services incorporate this knowledge of the spiritual, social and psychological aspects of pain and pain management to provide more meaningful care for people with pain.

The author argues that Imprisonment will not address the harm experienced by victims of crime or heal complex intergenerational trauma and complex needs experienced by Indigenous Australian children. They contend that culturally responsive programs which are Indigenous-led, placed based, holistic, life-course, and healing and family centred have a much better chance of addressing this issue

This Article supports SDG 3 by assessing the effectiveness of a hepatitis B model of care in Australia, suggesting that the model, involving primary health care, could be rolled out nationally or internationally. The authors suggest that the model could have positive implications particularly for low-income and middle-income countries.
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Renewable and Clean Energy Systems Based on Advanced Nanomaterials: Basis, Preparation, and Applications, Volume , 1 January 2024

This chapter aligns with SDG Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy by addressing the limitations of solar panels and exploring solutions to improve their effectiveness as a renewable energy source.
The aim of the paper is to understand the culture around birth and indigenous people. This study aimed to understand First Nations women’s perceptions of placenta burial and a dedicated placenta garden in supporting connection to their culture.
Although Indigenous Australians critically ill with sepsis have similar short and long-term mortality rates, they present to hospital, die in-hospital, and die post-discharge significantly younger. Unique cohort characteristics may explain these outcomes, and assist clinicians, researchers and policy-makers in targeting interventions to these characteristics to best reduce the burden of sepsis in this cohort and improve their healthcare outcomes.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Volume 48, June 2024

Māori and Pacific people want to take charge of their heart health but face challenges. Participants described important obligations to family, community and tikanga (the culturally correct way of doing things). Participants described times when health care undermined existing responsibilities, their dignity and/or their mana, and they felt excluded from treatment as a result.

This article examines the role of echocardiography in assessing rheumatic heart disease (RHD) among pregnant women in the Northern Territory (NT of Australia, which has a high prevalence of RHD in the First Nations population.

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