Beyond Bandaids

Anderson, Ian, Baum, Fran & Bentley, Michael (eds), 2007, Beyond Bandaids: Exploring the Underlying Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health. Papers from the Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health Workshop, Adelaide, July 2004. Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, Darwin

Abstract:

Beyond Bandaids is a collection of sixteen papers from the CRCAH Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health Workshop held in Adelaide in July 2004.

The monograph presents a perspective on how social and economic factors affect Indigenous Australians’ health and coincides with a growing interest in the topic, as embodied in the establishment of the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) in 2005 by the World Health Organization. Beyond Bandaids suggests fruitful directions for further inquiry into how these factors can be made more health promoting. Authors (individuals and/or groups) reviewed the literature on particular factors and made recommendations for the evolving CRCAH Social Determinants of Indigenous Health research program, discussed in the conclusion of this monograph.

Chapters cover a range of topics, including Koori perspectives of the social determinants of health; education and its impact on health; material social determinants of income, poverty, employment and the physical environment; the less visible, but vital, aspects of social and emotional wellbeing, community development, effective means of governance, and the value of social capital; law and justice, including an overview of constitutional rights issues for Indigenous peoples and a case study of the Koori Court in Victoria; also aspects of culture as it impacts the health of Indigenous Australians.

You can download a full pdf version of Beyond Bandaids (Large file warning: 7MB) OR select an individual chapter from the list below.

• Table of Contents, Tables, Diagrams and Figures List  [473.8KB]
• Fran Baum, Michael Bentley and Ian Anderson, Introduction [712.8KB]
• Ch 1 - Michael Tynan, Petah Atkinson, Lisa Bourke, and Vicki Atkinson, ‘If You Don’t Have Health, What’s the Use of Living?’ [1.2MB]
• Ch 2 - Joan Vickery, Shannon Faulkhead, Karen Adams and Angela Clarke, Indigenous Insights into Oral History, Social Determinants and Decolonisation, [1.2MB]
• Ch 3 - Stephanie Bell, Bob Boughton and Ben Bartlett, Education as a Determinant of Indigenous Health [944.6KB]
• Ch 4 - Helen Askell-Williams, Michael Coughlan, Michael J. Lawson, Felicity Lewis, Rosalind Murray-Harvey, Kim O’Donnell, Judith Peppard, Phillip Slee and Simone Ulalka Tur, You Can’t Have One without the Other—Transactions between Education and Wellbeing for Indigenous Peoples [1.7MB]
• Ch 5 - Maggie Walter, Aboriginality, Poverty and Health—Exploring the Connections [1.1MB]
• Ch 6 - Diannah Lowry and Megan Moskos, Labour Force Participation as a Determinant of Indigenous Health [1.1MB]
• Ch 7 - Kayli Wayte, Ross Bailie, Natalie Gray and Graham Henderson, Framework for Research on Aboriginal Health and the Physical Environment [1.4MB]
• Ch 8 - Graham Henderson, Carrie Robson, Leonie Cox, Craig Dukes, Komla Tsey and Melissa Haswell, Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People within the Broader Context of the Social Determinants of Health [1.3MB]
• Ch 9 - Danielle Campbell, Priscilla Pyett, Leisa McCarthy, Mary Whiteside and Komla Tsey, Community Development and Empowerment — A Review of Interventions to Improve Aboriginal Health [1.1MB]
• Ch 10 - Patrick Sullivan and Katharine Oliver, Governance, Indigenous and Non-Indigenous, as a Social Determinant of Aboriginal Health [1MB]
• Ch 11 - Mark Brough, Graham Henderson, Rosemary Foster and Heather Douglas, Social Capital and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health—Problems and Possibilities [1.1MB]
• Ch 12 - Chris Reynolds, Genevieve Howse and Anna Beesley, Law as a Determinant of Indigenous Health—Some Constitutional Issues [1.1MB]
• Ch 13 - Rosie Smith, Healthy Change at the Micro-Level—Victoria’s Koori Courts [1MB]
• Ch 14 - Chelsea Bond, The Meaning of Culture within Public Health Practice—Implications for the Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health [1.3MB]
• Ch 15 - Michael Morrissey, Rogelia Pe-Pua, Alex Brown and Ahmed Latif, Culture as a Determinant of Aboriginal Health [1.1MB]
• Ch 16 - Heather McDonald, Culture in Health Research and Practice [1.3MB]
• Ian Anderson, Fran Baum and Michael Bentley, Conclusion [1MB]