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CRCAH Project Number: SD128
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Administering organisation:
Menzies School of Health Research
Project Leaders:
Bronwyn Carson and Ross Bailie
Contact details:
Ross Bailie
Menzies School of Health Research
Ross.Bailie@menzies.edu.au
Program Manager:
Scott
Davis,
Social
Determinants of Health program
Partners involved:
- Flinders University
- NT Dept Health & Community Services
- Charles Darwin University
- University of Melbourne
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Funding sources:
- Public Health Education & Research Program (PHERP)
- CRCATH
- CRCAH
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Project summary:
Menzies School of Health Research received a Public Health
Education and Research Program (PHERP) grant in 2002 to develop and
conduct a short course on the Social Determinants of Indigenous
Health. The course was developed through an extensive period of
consultation which involved Indigenous academics and thinkers
from all over Australia.
From April to June 2002 the
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health (the
predecessor to the CRCAH) funded the development and staging of a
seminar series called Inequality and Health: a Northern Australian
Perspective, which then formed the development of the short-course
content for the PHERP grant.
In March 2004, Menzies School of
Health Research in Darwin ran the first course on this subject to
ever be held in Australia. The presentations from the short course
were then edited to produced a groundbreaking textbook, Social
Determinants of Indigenous Health, edited by Bronwyn Carson,
Terry Dunbar, Richard D Chenhall and Ross Bailie, and published in
2007 by Allen & Unwin.
The book scrutinises the social dynamics of
making policy for Indigenous Australians, and the interrelation
between human rights and health. The authors outline a framework
for effective health interventions, which take social factors into
consideration. It also looks at the impact of poverty and class on
health, and chapters on why education, employment and access to
traditional country can impact on the health of Aboriginal
people.
Social determinants of Indigenous health is designed to
be accessible to a wide range of people, including undergraduate
and post-graduate students. It is authored by an array of Australia
's leading Aboriginal health researchers and has already gone into
reprint after strong demand from several Australian academic
institutions.
Timeline:
2002-2007
Project Publication:
B. Carson, T. Dunbar,
RD. Chenhall and R. Bailie (eds) 2007, Social determinants of
Indigenous health, Allen & Unwin, Sydney. Buy from
eBooks.com
Related Links:
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Link to project information on Menzies School of Health
Research website
- CRCAH Media release: New book highlights
need for action (8 May 2007)
- Book
Review in the Medical Journal of Australia
- Review from the
Australian Private Hospitals Association
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Review by PHCRIS (Primary Health Care Research &
Information Service)
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