Prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases in Aboriginal children: A whole population study.

"CONFLICTS OF INTEREST The study was partially funded by an unrestricted grant from Mineral Resources Ltd., and a Medical Research Future Fund Investigator grant awarded to A/Prof Schultz (Grant APP1193796). Dr. Laird was funded by a Raine Clinician Research Fellowship, Dr Foong was supported by an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (Grant APP1140312). Prof Chang is supported by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (Grant 1058213) and a Queensland Children's Hospital Foundation top‐up (Grant 50286) and has received multiple NHMRC grants related to topics of cough and bronchiectasis including Centre of Research Excellence grants for lung disease (Grant 1040830) among Indigenous children and bronchiectasis (Grant 1170958)."

"The authors would like to thank the Aboriginal families who agreed to participate in the study and the council members and wider community who invited and supported the work. We would like specifically to thank the community Navigators who partnered with our team to conduct the project, including Angelo Thomas, Belinda Sampi, Rosita Billycan, Stanley Victor, Mareeka Patrick, Natasha Fejo; Nathan McIvor, Philomena Manado, Yvonne Sampi, Pauline Sampi, Laurette Davey, and Tahnee Brolga. We would like to thank the local medical clinics who provided valuable support to assist in identifying children in community at the time of the study and for arranging medical follow‐up. The project was funded by an unrestricted National and Mineral Resources Ltd. grant and the Medical Research Future Fund (Australia). Open access publishing facilitated by The University of Western Australia, as part of the Wiley ‐ The University of Western Australia agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians. The study was partially funded by an unrestricted grant from Mineral Resources Ltd., and a Medical Research Future Fund Investigator grant awarded to A/Prof Schultz (Grant APP1193796). Dr. Laird was funded by a Raine Clinician Research Fellowship, Dr Foong was supported by an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (Grant APP1140312). Prof Chang is supported by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (Grant 1058213) and a Queensland Children's Hospital Foundation top‐up (Grant 50286) and has received multiple NHMRC grants related to topics of cough and bronchiectasis including Centre of Research Excellence grants for lung disease (Grant 1040830) among Indigenous children and bronchiectasis (Grant 1170958)."