Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health relies on addressing broader issues than biomedical health. Social factors – such as housing, education, employment and transport – must also be addressed if we are to achieve lasting health gains.
Key resources
Active projects
- Community Control: Aboriginal self-determination and liberal democracy (PhD thesis)
- Creating healthy environments: Development and trial of an integrated model for Aboriginal health promotion and its evaluation
- Post-prison release support experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in an urban setting (PhD thesis)
- Quantifying the health benefits of on-country activities in the remote Indigenous community of Groote Eylandt
- Reducing Australia’s Aboriginal prisoner population using Justice Reinvestment – assessing the public’s views to incarceration versus non-incarceration alternatives using a Citizens’ Jury approach
- Aboriginal Adult Literacy Campaign
Completed projects
- Understandings of the social determinants of Aboriginal health: A stakeholder perspective analysis
- Researching the control factor and empowerment in addressing the social determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
- Issues of domestic water use in four remote Indigenous communities in South Australia
- Analysis of representation of Indigenous Australians in mainstream print media: An exploration centred on the social determinants of health
- Winnunga Prison Health Study
- Utility stress as a social determinant of health: A study of the increasing cost of public utilities on the poverty and health status of Aboriginal people in urban areas across Australia
- Racism and health: Setting the research agenda
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander urban location and health project
Related activities
- Northern Territory Research Roundtable
- Beyond Bandaids: Exploring the Underlying Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health, Papers from the Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health Workshop, Adelaide, July 2004
- Social determinants of Indigenous health short course and textbook
Publications
- I. Anderson, F. Baum & M. Bentley (eds) 2007, Beyond Bandaids: Exploring the Underlying Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health, Papers from the Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health Workshop, Adelaide, July 2004, CRCAH, Darwin (for information and to download individual chapters, please visit the Beyond Bandaids page under completed projects)
- S. R. Davis & J. Brands 2008, Research Priorities in Aboriginal Prisoner Health: Recommendations and Outcomes from the CRCAH Aboriginal Prisoner Health Industry Roundtable, Discusion Paper No. 6, CRCAH, Darwin
- Y. Paradies, R. Harris & I. Anderson 2008, The Impact of Racism on Indigenous Health in Australia and Aotearoa: Towards a Research Agenda, CRCAH, Darwin
- M. Scrimgeour & D. Scrimgeour 2008, Health Care Access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Living in Urban Areas, and Related Research Issues: A Review of the Literature, CRCAH, Darwin
- J. Freemantle, K. Officer, D. McAullay & I. Anderson 2007, Australian Indigenous Health - Within an International Context, CRCAH, Darwin
- F. Siciliano, M. Stevens, J. Condon & R. Bailie 2006, A Longitudinal Data Resource on Key Influences on Health in the Northern Territory: Opportunities and Obstacles, Discussion Paper No. 1, CRCAH, Darwin
- M. Malin 2003, Is schooling good for Aboriginal children's health?, Occasional Papers Series, No. 8, CRCATH, Darwin
- E. Kowal & Y. Paradies 2003, Race and Culture in Aboriginal Health: A facilitated discussion, CRCATH, Darwin
- A. Lowell, E. Maypilama & D. Biritjalawuy 2003, Indigenous Health and Education: Exploring the connections, CRCATH, Darwin
- J. Devitt, G. Hall & K. Tsey 2001, An Introduction to the Social Determinants of Health in Relation to the Northern Territory Indigenous Population, Occasional Paper Series, Issue No. 6, CRCATH, Darwin
- B. Hoffmann & R. Bailie 2001, Proposed Health Service Zones - Health-related housing and infrastructure in Northern Territory Aboriginal Communities, CRCATH, Darwin
- K. Coulehan, I. Brown, M. Christie, G. Gorham, A. Lowell, B. Marrnganyin & B. Patel 2005, Sharing the True Stories: Evaluating strategies to improve communication between health staff and Aboriginal patients, Stage 2 report
News
- NT research proposals to flow from Darwin Roundtables, Wangka Pulka, August 2012.
- Wilcannia hosts Aboriginal Adult Literacy pilot project, Wangka Pulka, April 2012
- Better housing, but overcrowding stymies child health benefits: Study, Wangka Pulka, August 2011
- Oz racism survey: too many have ‘narrow view’ of who belongs, Wangka Pulka, April 2011
- Report prompts action on unmet transport needs, Wangka Pulka, August 2010
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Created: 28 May 2012 - Updated: 14 February 2013