Why Indigenous health needs non-Indigenous allies

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Notifications and practitioner distress

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Five facts about suicide prevention in physiotherapy

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Concussion: more than just a 'knock to the head'

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Understanding metabolic syndrome

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1. Alberti K., Eckel R.H., Grundy S.M., Zimmet P.Z., Cleeman J.I., Donato K.A., et al (2024). Harmonizing the metabolic syndrome: a joint interim statement of the international diabetes federation task force on epidemiology and prevention; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; American Heart Association; World Heart Federation; International Atherosclerosis Society; and International Association for the Study of Obesity. Circulation. 2009; 120: 1640-1645 https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.192644
2. Mastwyk S, Taylor NF, Lowe A, Dalton C and Peiris CL (2024a) “You don’t know what you don’t know”: Knowledge, attitudes, and current practice of physiotherapists in recognising and managing metabolic syndrome, a mixed methods study. Physiotherapy, Volume 124, 75 – 84 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2024.01.008
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