What's in a rehab? Ethnographic evaluation research in Indigenous Australian residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation centres

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-116

  Chenhall, Richard ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation research; Indigenous alcohol and drug residential rehabilitation; Treatment process and outcome

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CENTER; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 46449103311     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: 14692910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470802122024     Document Type: Article

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