Australia is the only continent to have been occupied exclusively by nomadic hunters and
gatherers until recent times. Carbon dating of skeletal remains proves that Australian …

In Australia, western health services have been superimposed on traditional Aboriginal
systems of health care. However, these traditional systems have survived despite the …

The practice of traditional Aboriginal medicine within Australia is at risk of being lost due to
the impact of colonisation. Displacement of people from traditional lands as well as changes …

Western health professionals often experience difficulties in service delivery to Aboriginal
people because of the disparity between Aboriginal and Western health belief systems. This …

The health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada has been compared to that of people in third
world countries. Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre, an Aboriginal-based primary health centre …

Before colonization Australian Aboriginal people lived in a complex society, with high levels
of self-determination in all aspects of their lives, including ceremony, spiritual practices …

Most projects undertaken by government health organisations are formulated on values and
beliefs about health and illness that are derived from Anglo/Celtic culture. Health beliefs …

This publication does not have an abstract. The first paragraph of the Introduction is
displayed as the abstract. Sometime in mid 2006, the Indigenous population of Australia …

Aboriginalpeople suffirfrom the worst health ofany identifiable group in Australia due to
profound disadvantages experienced by them since European cownisation ofAustralia. The …

INTRODUCTIONIn the year 2070, the first chroniclers were beginning to record the
dimensions of" the Australian problem". Their accounts began in 2020, when the forces from …