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How discrimination and stressful events affect the health of our Indigenous kids

  • Written by Tom Calma, Adjunct Professor, Australian National University
imageIndigenous kids experience more major life events than non-Indigenous kids, and this can affect their health. Rusty Stewart/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Footprints in Time, or its more formal title, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC), is approaching its tenth year of collecting data from around 1,700 Indigenous children, their families and...

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