Content tagged with Health
Holding Men: Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal men
Summary This is an easily readable book that explores how Indigenous men understand their lives, their health and their culture. Using...
Publication or resource - 28 Jan 2015
Heavy Metal: The social meaning of petrol sniffing in Australia
Summary In an attempt to go beyond current explanations of Aboriginal drug abuse, which stereotype these people as 'victims', Brady focuses on...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Something Special: The inside story of the Katherine West Health Board
Summary Something Special tells the story of a unique and successful ‘experiment’ in which the delivery of health services in the Katherine...
Publication or resource - 20 Jan 2015
Reading Doctors' Writing: Race, politics and power in Indigenous health research 1870–1969
Summary Reading Doctors’ Writing is a book for every Australian who reads or writes health research about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
Publication or resource - 19 Jan 2015
Aboriginal Suicide is Different: A portrait of life and self-destruction
Summary Aboriginal Suicide is Different is a study of youth who have, or feel they have, no purpose in life — or who may be seeking freedom in...
Publication or resource - 19 Jan 2015
Holding Men: Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal men
Summary This is an easily readable book that explores how Indigenous men understand their lives, their health and their culture. Using...
Publication or resource - 3 Dec 2014
The Lowitja Institute Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Overview Hosted and managed by the Lowitja Institute, the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (CRCATSIH)...
Research project - 2 Dec 2014
Culturally mediated screening in Aboriginal primary health care
Overview 'Mob' and 'country' are fundamental concepts of identity for Aboriginal people. This research aimed to measure the impact...
Research project - 2 Dec 2014