Research Catalog

Title

Hard yakka : transforming indigenous health policy and politics / Nili Kaplan-Myrth.

Author

Kaplan-Myrth, Nili.

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

xiii, 169 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Indigenous and other marginalized populations worldwide experience significant health inequalities - life expectancies reduced by decades, elevated rates of chronic disease, neonatal, mortality, accidental death, infectious disease, and suicide. Australia is one of the healthiest countries in the world with one of the most dramatic examples of social inequalities in health. Hard Yakka: Transforming Indigenous Health Policy and Politics examines these inequalities through a critical study of Australian health bureaucracy. The author, medical anthropologist Nili Kaplan-Myrth, discusses and evaluates processes and institutional structures that influence relationships between Indigenous communities and government in the development, implementation, and evaluation of health policy."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Indigenous peoples > Health and hygiene > Australia
• Health Planning
• Australia
• Politics
• Medical policy > Australia
• Oceanic Ancestry Group
• Health Policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Ethnography -- 1. The health policy jigsaw -- 2. Spinning a good yarn : research with indigenous communities -- Pt. II. History, present and future -- 3. The right to write : history and community-government relations in Australia -- 4. Indigenous activism, community-controlled health services and changing health politics -- 5. Dinkum Aussies and blackfellas : communities imagined, experienced and represented -- Pt. III. Yes, minister : speaking with government -- 6. Indigenous health policies and government policy processes -- 7. Reconciliation and self-determination -- Conclusion : research, policy and action.

ISBN

• 9780739114100 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739114107 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007013073

OCLC

• 122309425
• SCSB-5352074

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries