Barriers Preventing Indigenous Women with Violence-related Head Injuries from Accessing Services in Australia

M Fitts, J Cullen, J Barney - Australian Social Work, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious yet commonly under-recognised injury sustained by
women as a direct outcome of family violence. Although healthcare and support services are …

Barriers Experienced by First Nations Deaf People in the Justice System

BC Elder, K Soldatić, MA Schwartz… - Journal of Deaf …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that members of the First Nations Deaf community
experience more barriers when engaging with the criminal justice system than those who …

Healthcare and legal systems responses to coercive control: an embodied performance of one woman's experience

J Rose, T McCallum, M Tsantefski… - Health Sociology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper uses a drama-based method to illustrate the responses of healthcare and legal
systems to women experiencing coercive control. This approach involved writing a play …

Listening to the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in regional and remote Australia about traumatic brain injury from family violence: a qualitative …

E Wills, M Fitts - Health Expectations, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Indigenous women experience high rates of family violence‐related head
injuries. At present, lived experience accounts from Indigenous women are absent, which …

Temporalities of emergency: the experiences of Indigenous women with traumatic brain injury from violence waiting for healthcare and service support in Australia

M Fitts, K Soldatic - Health Sociology Review, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Globally, traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been recognised as a serious health issue not only
because of the immediate impacts at the time the injury occurs but even more so due to the …

Traumatic brain injury as a result of violence for Indigenous women: The importance of appropriate monitoring systems, screening and models of care

M Fitts, K Soldatić - The Routledge International Handbook of Disability … - taylorfrancis.com
Violence against Indigenous women is a global challenge that few governments have taken
effective action to address domestically, regionally and internationally. Governments in …