Aboriginal Health

Aboriginal Health: Social and Cultural Transitions

Edited by Gary Robinson

This timely collection of articles on Aboriginal health presents:

- Recent medical research into causes of Aboriginal ill-health and mortality;
- Studies of the social, cultural and environmental determinants of health;
- A searching examination of women's and infant health;
- Challenging discussions of the need for Aboriginal participation in health care; and
- Critical discussion of initiatives in mental health, substance abuse and health service delivery.

Contributors include: Pat Anderson, Stephanie Bell, Maggie Brady, Victoria Burbank, John and Pat Caldwell, John Matthews, Jake Najman, Gerhardt Pearson, Beverley Raphael, Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray, Peggy Trompf and many others.

This volume will be an indispensable aid to all concerned about Aboriginal health and the development of strategies for the future.

At the time of publication, Gary Robinson lectured in Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at the Northern Territory University [now Charles Darwin University] in Darwin. His major areas of research and publication concern adolescence and family life in Aboriginal communities of the Northern Territory.