Responding to racism: Insights on how racism can damage health from an urban study of Australian Aboriginal people

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1045-1053

  Ziersch, Anna M ^a   Gallaher, Gilbert ^a   Baum, Fran ^a,b   Bentley, Michael ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b South Australian Community Health Research Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Australia; Coping responses; Discrimination; Indigenous; Racism; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH IMPACT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; RACISM; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN SOCIETY;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREJUDICE; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADELAIDE; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 80052650176     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.058     Document Type: Article

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