TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaplan-Myrth,Nili
TI  - Hard yakka: transforming indigenous health policy and politics 
SN  - 0739114107
AV  - RA553 .K37 2007
U1  - 362.10899915 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Australia
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - Political science
KW  - Health planning
KW  - Oceanic Ancestry Group
N1  - 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 -- --; Pt. I; Ethnography --; 1; The health policy jigsaw --; 2; Spinning a good yarn : research with indigenous communities --; Pt. II; History, present and future --; 3; The right to write : history and community-government relations in Australia --; 4; Indigenous activism, community-controlled health services and changing health politics --; 5; Dinkum Aussies and blackfellas : communities imagined, experienced and represented --; Pt. III; Yes, minister : speaking with government --; 6; Indigenous health policies and government policy processes --; 7; Reconciliation and self-determination --; Conclusion : research, policy and action
N2  - "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
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