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Healthy Country, Healthy People: Policy Implications of Links between Indigenous Human Health and Environmental Condition in Tropical Australia

  • Authors: Garnett, ST, Sithole, B, Whitehead, PJ, Burgess, CP, Johnston, FH, Lea, T
  • Published: 2009

Investment in programs that help Indigenous people undertake work maintaining the environmental health of their country has benefits for the environment as well as the physical, mental and cultural health…

Moorn (Black)? Djardak (White)? How come I don't fit in Mum?: Exploring the racial identity of Australian Aboriginal children and youth

  • Author: Kickett-Tucker, C
  • Published: 2009

This study explored the racial identity of Indigenous children and youth who attended urban, state and private primary and secondary schools in the Noongar[i] region of urban Perth in Western…

Authorship, Authenticity, and Intellectual Property in Australian Aboriginal Art

  • Authors: Van den Bosch, Annette, Rentschler, Ruth
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Published: 2009

This article analyzes research and legal cases about authorship, authenticity, and intellectual property in Aboriginal art. The concepts of Aboriginality, authenticity, and ownership are used to show the complexities of…

Working from our strengths: Indigenous community engagement through enterprise development and training

  • Authors: Wallace, Ruth, Manado, Mark, Agar, Richard, Curry, Cathy
  • Published: 2009

Community engagement is predicated on partnerships that respect and recognise all stakeholders’ knowledge, strengths and needs. Effective approaches to training and workforce development in remote and regional communities use a…

Patterns of accessing variable resources across time and space: desert plants, animals and people

  • Authors: McAllister, RRJ , Stafford Smith, DM , Stokes, CJ, Walsh, F
  • Published: 2009

Key resources in arid and semi-arid systems are highly variable in time and space. Biophysical variability is mainly driven directly or indirectly by rainfall. Arid-dwelling people are also exposed to…

Simulation of the spatiotemporal aspects of land erodibility in the northeast Lake Eyre Basin, Australia, 1980–2006

  • Authors: Webb, NP, McGowan, HA, Phinn, SR, McTainsh, GH, Leys, JF
  • Published: 2009

This paper explores spatiotemporal patterns in land erodibility in the northeast portion of the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia, using the Australian Land Erodibility Model (AUSLEM) in simulations from 1980 to…

An Economy of Poverty? Power and the Domain of Aboriginality

  • Author: Walter, Maggie
  • Published: 2009

In this essay I argue that the domain of Aboriginality is constituted by non Aboriginal/Aboriginal relations of power whereby the State operates as a proxy for these relations. The domain…

Work Motivations, Work Outcomes, and Health: Passion Versus Addiction

  • Authors: Burke, Ronald J, Fiksenbaum, Lisa
  • Published: 2009

Individuals in managerial and professional jobs now work long hours for a variety of reasons. Building on previous research on workaholism and on types of passion, the results of three…

Mining developments and social impacts on communities: Bowen Basin case studies

  • Authors: Petkova, V., Lockie, S., Rolfe, J., Ivanova, G.
  • Published: 2009

Mining activities in Australia tend to be cyclical, with boom and bust times impacting upon associated communities. However, little information exists to classify key impacts or to identify how they…

Burden of disease and injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: the Indigenous health gap.

  • Authors: Vos, T., Barker, B., Begg, S., Stanley, L., Lopez, A.D.
  • Published: 2009

Background: Disparities in health status between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the total Australian population have been documented in a fragmentary manner using disparate health outcome measures. Methods:…

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and health

  • Authors: Lee, A., Leonard, D., Moloney, A., Minniecon, L.
  • Published: 2009

“Best buys” to improve Indigenous nutrition and health 1. Continue and expand the reach of successful interventions - Increase demand for healthy food • Brief nutrition interventions and early interventions…

Managing the health effects of climate change

  • Authors: Costello, A., Abbas, M., Allen, A., Sarah, B., Bell, S., Bellamy, R., Friel, S., Groce, N., Johnson, A., Kett, M., Lee, M., Levy, C., Maslin, M., McCoy, D., McGuire, B., Montgomery, H., Napier, D., Pagel, C., Patel, J., Antonia Puppim de Oliveira, J., Redclift, N., Rees, H., Rogger, D., Scott, J., Stephenson, J., Twigg, J., Wolff, J., Patterson, C.
  • Published: 2009

A collaboration between The Lancet and University College London, UK, resulting in the first UCL Lancet Commission report, setting out how climate change over the coming decades could have a…

Is 'Close the Gap' a useful approach to improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians?

  • Authors: Pholi, K., Black, D., Richards, C.
  • Published: 2009

There is widespread enthusiasm for the Australian government’s commitment to ‘Close the Gap’ in Indigenous disadvantage, health status and life expectancy. Yet despite the rhetoric, the pursuit of statistical equality…

Evaluating Participatory Modeling: Developing a Framework for Cross-Case Analysis

  • Authors: Jones, N. A., Perez, P., Measham, T. G., Kelly, G. J., d'Aquino, P., Daniell, K. A., Dray, A., Ferrand, N.
  • Published: 2009

Participatory modeling is increasingly recognized as an effective way to assist collective decision-making processes in the domain of natural resource management. This article introduces a framework for evaluating projects that…

There should be more help out here! A qualitative study of the needs of Aboriginal adolescents in rural Australia

  • Authors: Mohajer, N, Bessarab, D, Earnest, J
  • Published: 2009

Introduction: Aboriginal adolescents living in or near rural towns have different social and cultural needs than Aboriginal adolescents living in large cities or remote areas. Identification of health needs by…

Co-management and Indigenous protected areas in Australia: achievements and ways forward

  • Authors: Ross, H., Grant, C., Robinson, C. J., Izurieta, A., Smyth, D., Rist, P.
  • Published: 2009

Until recent decades, the establishment of protected areas contributed to the dispossession and marginalisation of Indigenous peoples in Australia. Recently, governance and policy frameworks have been developed and refined to…

Approach to treatment of mental illness and substance dependence in remote Indigenous communities: Results of a mixed methods study

  • Authors: Nagel, Tricia, Robinson, Gary, Condon, John, Trauer, Tom
  • Published: 2009

Objective: To develop and evaluate a culturally adapted brief intervention for Indigenous people with chronic mental illness. Design: A mixed methods design in which an exploratory phase of qualitative research…

Knowledge and attitudes regarding smoking during pregnancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

  • Authors: Conor Gilligan, Robert W Sanson-Fisher, Catherine D’Este, Sandra Eades, Mark Wenitong
  • Published: 2009

Objective: To identify factors associated with antenatal smoking and explore characteristics of smoking behaviour among pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Design and setting: Cross-sectional study using interviewer-administered questionnaires…

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Healthy Cooking Class for Indigenous Youth

  • Authors: Jamieson, Shani, Heron, Bev
  • Published: 2009

Traditionally, Aboriginal people were educated within complex cultural and relational systems which ensured key health messages were passed from older to younger generations. Within this system was the knowledge gained…

Reducing the risk of pandemic influenza in Aboriginal communities

  • Authors: Massey PD, Pearce G, Taylor KA, Orcher L, Saggers S, Durrheim DN
  • Published: 2009

Context: Aboriginal people are particularly vulnerable to pandemic influenza A, H1N109. This was first recognized in the First Nations of Canada. There have been calls for close planning with Aboriginal…

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