Selected Reference Resources - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

eResources

Australia's Health 2002 - source of information on patterns of health and illness, determinants of health, the supply and use of health services, and health service costs and performance.

Print resources

Aboriginal Primary Health Care : An evidence-based approach 1999

The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples 2001

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander survey 1994

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody: an overview 1997

Submission by the Australian Medical Association to the Royal Commission into Deaths of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in Custody 1990

Macquarie Aboriginal Words: a dictionary of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders 1994

Videos in UNSW Library

Your way .... Our way 2002
Good news stories - 25 of them - about health, education, training, youth and small business. The stories were shot across the top of Australia from Broome to Townsville, and north to the Kimberleys, Anrnhem Land, Cape York Peninsula and Thursday Island.

Brief intervention strategies with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People 1998
Clinical Skills series - specifically designed to cater to counsellors dealing with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander clients.

Last night I heard a voice: working with indigenous mental health clients 1996
Promotes cultural awareness for mental health clinicians working with indigenous clients.

Trouble with Medicine 1993
Looks at the social and ethical issues facing mdcicine in the 1990's from genetic screening to the use of technology to prolonging life in old age.

Healing together 1993
Towards a better understanding of indigenous health.

Consult the Library Resources Database (LRD) for a more extensive coverage of the subject of Aboriginal Health