Belinda Davison

TL;DR: The Our Lives: Culture, Context and Risk project as mentioned in this paper investigated sexual behaviour and decision-making in the context of the everyday life experience and aspirations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and in South Australia.

TL;DR: The high retention rate of this follow-up 20 years after birth recruitment is a testament to the development of successful multiphase protocols aimed at overcoming the challenges of tracing a cohort over a widespread remote area and also to the perseverance of the study personnel.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the application and adaptation of body mapping as a tool for exploring sexual health and sexual decision making among young people aged 16-25, and suggest that utilizing a combination of methodological approaches (the visual body maps and written case scenarios) in sexual health research with young people has the potential to enhance and enrich the quality of the data, and allow for a safe and enabling environment.

TL;DR: A novel approach to the collection of household structure data is developed, suitable for use in a variety of contexts, which provides a detailed view of age, gender, and room occupancy patterns in remote and urban Australian Indigenous households, and quantifies the extent of crowding in Indigenous households.

TL;DR: MetS in childhood is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in an Australian Aboriginal population and the effects appear to be mediated by increased inflammation.