Tag: Central Queensland HHS

Educating Community about rheumatic heart disease

Educating Community about rheumatic heart disease

Posted by | Sep 9, 2025 | , ,

The team at Bidgerdii Community Health Service dedicated the final months of 2024 to raising awareness and action around preventing, detecting, and managing rheumatic heart disease (RHD). In collaboration with Queensland Health’s First Nations Team, community events were held across Central Queensland including Woorabinda, Biloela, and Bidgerdii’s new centre in Blackwater, to educate and engage the local community about RHD and Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF).

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Indigenous Australians bear disproportionate burden of allergy-related illness

Indigenous Australians bear disproportionate burden of allergy-related illness

Posted by | Sep 5, 2025 | , ,

Researchers at the University of Queensland have found First Nations people are twice as likely to present at hospital with asthma and other allergy related illnesses, compared to other Australians. Dr Desalegn Markos Shifti, from UQ’s Child Health Research Centre led a study analysing 813,112 Emergency Department (ED) presentations at 12 public hospitals in Central Queensland, between 2018 and 2023.

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