Equality and difference: Persisting historical themes in health and alcohol policies affecting Indigenous Australians

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 759-763

  Brady, Maggie ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL POLICY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ABORIGINE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND; TORRES STRAIT; TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS;

EID: 34548169797     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.057455     Document Type: Review

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