Skin health in northern Australia

Hannah M.M. Thomas; Stephanie Enkel; Tracy Mcrae; Victoria Cox; Heather Lynn Kessaris; Abbey J. Ford; Rebecca Famlonga; Rebekah Newton; Ingrid Amgarth-Duff; Alexandra Whelan; Asha C. Bowen

doi:10.1071/MA22033

Skin health in northern Australia

Hannah M.M. Thomas, Stephanie Enkel, Tracy Mcrae, Victoria Cox, Heather Lynn Kessaris, Abbey J. Ford, Rebecca Famlonga, Rebekah Newton, Ingrid Amgarth-Duff, Alexandra Whelan, Asha C. Bowen

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Achieving healthy skin requires the prevention of infectious diseases that affect the skin. Prevention activities range from environmental health improvements to address inequities in living situations, through to community-wide treatment programs to reduce transmission and improve skin health. In this paper we discuss the pathogens that cause and conditions that arise when skin is infected, the burden of disease in northern Australia, and some of the current research underway to address this high burden, which predominantly affects remote-living Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	98-103
Number of pages	6
Journal	Microbiology Australia
Volume	43
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1071/MA22033
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2022

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The authors acknowledge the Nyoongar Wadjuk, Yawuru, Kariyarra and Kaurna Elders, their people, and their land upon which the Telethon Kids Institute is located, as well as the traditional owners of the lands across northern Australia.

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© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the ASM. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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