ANDREA WHITTAKER 103 the wider community. As speech acts, people's explanations of
causality constitute presentations of the self and have performative qualities, constituting …

Objective. The Heart Health Project is an ongoing community-directed health promotion
programme encompassing the collection of health-related data and interventions promoting …

Being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in contemporary Australia is often discursively
constructed in health literature as equating with risks of many kinds. This article explores the …

Recently, social determinants of health frameworks are receiving some criticism in that they
do not engage with questions related to individual subjectivity and agency as they relate to …

The life expectancy (LE) gap experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
in one of Australians most enduring health divides. Whilst there are many likely reasons …

Drawing on the salutogenic, or 'origins of health'framework, this article explores the health
and well-being conceptions of urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and …

Abstract [Truncated abstract] Indigenous Australians suffer cardiovascular disease (CVD) at
a rate six times greater than the general population in Australia and while the incidence of …

Drawing on an anthropological study of the Cessnock area of New South Wales, this paper
considers the politics of recent health promotion campaigns in Australia, placing the new …

Abstract Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the Indigenous people of Australia.
The prevalence and burden of chronic disease among them is significantly higher than that …

This study draws on data from an ethnographic study of health and illness in a suburb of a
regional city of southeastern Australia.“Stress” was a significant emergent theme in one-third …