RHETORIC, REALITY AND RACISM: THE GOVERNANCE OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HEALTH WORKERS IN A STATE GOVERNMENT HEALTH SERVICE IN AUSTRALIA

Background In northern Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers (A&TSIHWs) are unique members of nominally integrated teams of primary care professionals.Spurred by research documenting ongoing structural violence experienced by Indigenous health providers and more recent challenges to recruitment and retention of A&TSIHWs, t

Using a generalized CED Player ordered probit model, we offer statistical evidence in favor of the political economy thesis.This thesis states that government parties in power group-led precarious democracies, in which drug trafficking and clientelism are allies and seek to co-opt government at the local Utility Knives level, systematically undermi

Abstract Background Aedes aegypti and Ae.albopictus are important human arbovirus vectors that can spread arboviral diseases such as yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya and Zika.These two mosquito species coexist on Hainan Island and the Leizhou Peninsula in China.Over the past 40 years, the distribution of Ae.albopictus in these areas has gradually

For the past decade engineered nanoplatforms have seen a momentous progress in developing a multimodal theranostic formulation which can be simultaneously used for imaging and therapy.In this report we describe the synthesis and application of theranostic phospholipid based polymeric micelles for optical fluorescence imaging and controlled drug del