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Origins of Persisting Poor Aboriginal Health: An Historical Exploration of Poor Aboriginal Health and the Continuity of the Colonial Relationship as an Explanation of the Persistence of Poor Aboriginal Health.

The thesis examines the history of Central Australia and specifically the development of health services in the Northern Territory. The continuing colonial realtionships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia are explored as a reason for the peristence of poor Aboriginal health status, including the cycle of vself destructive behaviours. It rovides an explanation of the importance of community agency to address community problems, and the potential of community controlled ABoriginal health services as vehicles for such community action.

  1. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/386
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/282910
Date January 1999
CreatorsBartlett, William Bennett
PublisherUniversity of Sydney, Public Health & Community Medicine
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish, en_AU
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsCopyright Bartlett, William Bennett;http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/copyright.html

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