- Bib ID:
- 9146
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Thompson, Samantha
- Description:
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- Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 1997
- xiv, 428 p. maps ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Application of an anthropological approach to the problem of developing an appropriate questionnaire for the Melbourne Aboriginal community; development of an explanatory model of diabetes in the Melbourne community and prevention strategy; methodology and process of research; includes extensive literature review; survey of health factors related to diabetes in Aboriginal communities - diet, physical activity socio-cultural; background to the case study - the Koorie community in Melbourne; research results - qualitative analysis of social environment - role of family, community organisations, mobility (effects on diet), attitudes to illness, money and patterns of spending, alcohol use; social meaning of food, diet and exercise, past and country; stress factors - family, financial and lifestyle, generational, community, illness; conflict in Koorie and non-Koorie meanings of health; social aetiology of diabetes; questionnaire development and testing.
- Notes:
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- Spring 1997
- Thesis (PhD)--University of California, Berkely, 1997
- Includes bibliography, p. 338-358.
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