Learning from the past, looking to the future: Exploring our place with Indigenous Australians

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-102

  Nelson, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colonialism; Culture; Indigenous health services

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; COLONIALISM; CULTURE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LEARNING; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 63849310194     PISSN: 00450766     EISSN: 14401630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1630.2009.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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