Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 19-20
Description
Biennial conference attracted 1,200 delegates. Only two issues have been on the agenda for the 17 years of these gatherings. One is indigenous life expectancy, the other indigenous health inequality.
NOTE: pdf displays incorrect information (vol. 30 no.6 November/December 2006)
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, July/August 1999, pp. 2-4
Description
The results of a three month pilot study conducted by an Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer in Australia revealed consistent underreported Indigenous hospital admissions.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 6, November/December 1999, p. 25
Description
Notes that while expenditure levels are similar, Aboriginal Australians are much more reliant on publicly funded services than non-Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, March/April 1999, p. 9
Description
Describes a practical guide developed by the Australian Federal Government to assist health care workers to enable people to stay in familiar surroundings receiving care.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 21-23
Description
Discusses program which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
NOTE: pdf displays incorrect information (vol. 30 no.6 November/December 2006)
Chapter from The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba edited by Lynne Fernandez, Shauna MacKinnon, and Jim Silver.
Material presented as exhibit 130 from the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry.
Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children: Protecting the Vulnerable Under International Lawncb703Wed, 10/09/2013 - 00:00
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Trish Luker
Aboriginal History, vol. 36, 2012, pp. 189-191
Description
Book review of: Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children by Sonia Harris-Short.
Review located by scrolling down to page 189.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, September 2010, pp. 9-11
Description
Looks at two Aboriginal health care workers who contributed to the improvement of health services for pregnant women and infant care in Aboriginal communities.
Background Paper (Law and Government Division, Library of Parliament) ; BP-359E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Niemczak
Description
Brief overview of efforts made in Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia, Maine and Canada to increase Indigenous presence in government institutions.
1999 version.
Aims to describe motivations and challenges faced by Aboriginal owned tourist business.
Towards Bachelor of Environmental Tourism Management from Southern Cross University, 2012.
Looks at the significance, history and results of the referendum to change the Australian Constitution by eliminating provisions which prevented Federal Government from making laws for Aboriginals and excluded them from being counted in census.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 6, November/December 1999, pp. 19-23
Description
Describes the process involved in receiving funding from Diabetes Australia to support the education program. Conclusions reached state the Aboriginal health worker is the best equipped to inform Aboriginal clients about diabetes management.
Social Sciences and Medicine, vol. 64, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 125-137
Description
Looks at how Australian politicians have shaped decades of health policy and influenced health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. suppl., Aboriginal Englishes and Education, 2010, pp. 143-155
Description
Looks at a sociolinguistic view of Aboriginal English; approaches to minority dialects in institutional settings; dialectal damage; a modified immersion model to address Aboriginal English needs; and Aboriginal English in British Columbia schools.