Better care of heart and lung disease for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in rural and remote Australia

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1046563

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Lung and heart disease are major contributors to the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander health gap. This is even more so in remote and regional Australia. This Fellowship will generate new knowledge regarding how best to prevent, diagnose and treat heart and lung disease in this setting. Based in Alice Springs, it will bring together researchers and health care providers across northern and Central Australia and link them with our leading national research institutes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2017

Funding Scheme: Practitioner Fellowships

Funding Amount: $380,583.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Aboriginal health | adult respiratory diseases | cardiac disease | chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | clinical diagnosis | diagnosis | overweight/obesity | primary prevention | rheumatic heart disease | secondary prevention

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