Aboriginal health and society : the traditional and contemporary Aboriginal struggle for better health / Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray
- Bib ID:
- 1087400
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Saggers, Sherry
- Description:
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- North Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 1991
- xiii, 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1863730575 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Introductory tertiary text for health and social science subjects; reviews literature on Aboriginal health; discusses pre-contact health care and medical practice, mentions natural therapy, childbirth, religious therapy; discusses health consequences of colonisation, mentions nutrition, alcohol, tobacco, role of women in contact period; describes contemporary patterns of morbidity and mortality; mentions womens health, substance abuse; outlines state and Commonwealth Health Services and programs; discusses failure of mainstream services; outlines development of Aboriginal Health Services, two -way medicine, funding and evaluation, Aboriginal health workers and training; discusses political economy of Aboriginal health and policy implications.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- For tertiary students.
- Bibliography: p. 198-217.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care
- Health services - Health workers - Training
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Substance use - Smoking / Tobacco
- Colonisation
- Health services - Health workers
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Health
- Substance use - Alcohol
- Community organisations - Health and family planning
- Politics and Government - Political parties - Liberal Party / National Party
- Health status - Nutrition
- Health status - Womens health
- Social behaviour - Roles
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Substance use - Social and economic aspects
- Australia
- Other authors/contributors:
- Gray, Dennis, 1947-
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1991
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