Hard yakka : transforming indigenous health policy and politics /
Transforming indigenous health policy and politics
Nili Kaplan-Myrth.
- xiii, 169 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The health policy jigsaw -- Spinning a good yarn: research with indigenous communities -- The right to write: history and community-government relations in Australia -- Indigenous activism, community-controlled health services and changing health politics -- Dinkum Aussies and blackfellas: communities imagined, experienced and represented -- Indigenous health policies and government policy processes -- Reconciliation and self-determination -- The health policy jigsaw -- Spinning a good yarn: research with indigenous communities -- The right to write: history and community-government relations in Australia -- Indigenous activism, community-controlled health services, and changing health politics -- Dinkum Aussies and blackfellas: communities imagined, experienced, and represented -- Indigenous health policies and government policy processes -- Reconciliation and self-determination -- -- Ethnography -- The health policy jigsaw -- Spinning a good yarn : research with indigenous communities -- History, present and future -- The right to write : history and community-government relations in Australia -- Indigenous activism, community-controlled health services and changing health politics -- Dinkum Aussies and blackfellas : communities imagined, experienced and represented -- Yes, minister : speaking with government -- Indigenous health policies and government policy processes -- Reconciliation and self-determination -- Conclusion : research, policy and action. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7.
"Indigenous and other marginalized populations worldwide experience significant health inequalities - life expectancies reduced by decades, elevated rates of chronic disease, neonatal, mortality, accidental death, infectious disease, and suicide. Australia is one of the healthiest countries in the world with one of the most dramatic examples of social inequalities in health. Hard Yakka: Transforming Indigenous Health Policy and Politics examines these inequalities through a critical study of Australian health bureaucracy. The author, medical anthropologist Nili Kaplan-Myrth, discusses and evaluates processes and institutional structures that influence relationships between Indigenous communities and government in the development, implementation, and evaluation of health policy."--BOOK JACKET.
0739114107 9780739114100
2007013073
Indigenous peoples--Health and hygiene--Australia Medical policy--Australia Politics, Practical Political science. Health planning. Oceanic Ancestry Group