Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, May/June 2001, pp. 33-35
Description
Assesses the percentage of Indigenous content to be 1.9% in Australia where health in rural/remote areas lags consistently behind the country as a whole.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 47, no. 2, Summer, 2001, pp. 196-201
Description
Book review of: Indigenous Education Models for Contemporary Practice: In Our Mother's Voice edited by Maenette Kae'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Beham and Joanne Elizabeth Cooper.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, March/April 2001, pp. 7-12
Description
Provides summaries of the conference speaker's presentations held in Sydney, Australia. One speaker stated that between 99.8% and 99.9% of the human genome is identical, therefore we are much more alike than different.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 16-17
Description
Describes the launch of the National Indigenous Substance Misuse Council Inc (NISCM) which is geared to preventing alcohol and other substance abuse in Australia.
Looks at traditional knowledge as a living system of information management which has its roots in ancient traditions, and looks at how the Western legal traditional knowledge is virtually unprotected.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 4, July/August 2001, pp. 34-35
Description
Brief description of an awareness campaign to ensure that Aboriginal Australians utilize the Heath Care Complaints Commission with their complaints and concerns.
Paedagogica Historica, vol. 37, no. 1, 2001, pp. 251-261
Description
Examines historical study of learning patterns and teaching methods for Aboriginals and reasons for the limitations of research and analysis within the field of study.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, Special Issue: Inuit Art World, Fall/Winter, 1990/1991, pp. 15-23
Description
Overview of collecting, research and teaching, and exhibitions in Canada, United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, Germany, etc.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 2, no. 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 6-16
Description
Fictional case study intended for academic discussion. Case covers the challenges faced by a mining company trying to initiate a mining project in Australia.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, March 1990, pp. 5-13
Description
Taken from presentation given to the National Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Party by the Victorian Aboriginal Health Services Co-operative Limited.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 4, July/August 2001, pp. 19-25
Description
The Suicide Prevention Project operates under a community development mode of collaboration by interacting with the entire community. Results pointed to culturally appropriate guidelines and the establishment of locally supported network to respond to at risk individuals.
World Literature Today, vol. 64, no. 1, Winter, 1990, p. 30
Description
Article argues that to establish a meaningful connection with the past and achieve a healing sense of self, writers must engage in a constant dialogue with past history.
Aboriginal History, vol. 14, no. 2, 1990, pp. 237-239
Description
Book reviews of:
The Lost Children edited by Coral Edwards and Peter Read.
Reaching Back edited by Judy Thomson.
Reviews located by scrolling to page 237.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, January/February 2001, pp. 19-24
Description
Comments on opening of Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health (CRCATH) aimed at bringing together organizations and service providers to improve health and wellbeing.
Culture & Mental Health Research Unit Report ; no.10
Proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Gregory M. Brass
Caroline L. Tait
Ernest Hunter
Duncan Pedersen ... James Waldram ... [et al.]
Culture & Mental Health Research Unit Report
Description
Reviews research on mental health; presents social issues underlying problems and some individual and community responses to these challenges. Argues cultural psychiatry can contribute to rethinking services and heath promotion.
Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 8, no. 3, September 2001
Description
Examines the key provisions of the Native Title Act 1993 and how to cope with the "right to negotiate" provision of the act and when the provision doesn't apply.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, January/February 2001, pp. 31-32
Description
Report examines the effect of discrimination on Indigenous children in Australia. For someone born female, disabled or Indigenous, a life of disadvantage is the probable outcome.