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• INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT GROWTH FALTERING IN REMOTE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES 1 page led by Ross Bailie
  
  Growth faltering, the failure to gain weight at a rate consistent with height growth, is a common problem in remote Indigenous communities and poses serious risks to the health and well-being of young children. Evidence about the effectiveness and applicability of existing programs to prevent growth faltering in this context is limited.
  
  
  • Key Findings/Policy options (2 pages)
  • Full Systematic Review

  Elizabeth McDonald, who was part of the Ross Bailie-led research team, was a recipient of an APHCRI Linkage and Exchange Travelling Fellowship. Summary report.

• SUSTAINING AN ABORIGINAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PARTNERSHIP
  
  

  The Regional Aboriginal Integrated Social and Emotional (RAISE) Wellbeing program commenced in February 2003 as an Aboriginal mental health service partnership between one Aboriginal Health Service and three mainstream services: a community mental health team, a hospital mental health liaison, and an “outback” community counselling service. A case study method was used to describe the drivers (incentives for program development), linkage processes (structures and activities through which the partnership operated), and sustainability of the program.