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dc.contributor.authorSaggers, S.
dc.contributor.authorGray, Dennis
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:47:41Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:47:41Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:20:57Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.citationSaggers, S. and Gray, D.. 2002. Theorising Indigenous health: a political economy of health and substance misuse. Health Sociology review 10 (2): 21-32.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5663
dc.description.abstract

For more than two decades we have bene engaged in a program of research which examines the health of Indigenous people. More recetnly this work has focussed on ways in which the substance misuse affects communities, and their responses to it. Our work is framed by understandings derived from political economy, which directs attention to the web of political and economic relations surrounding individuals and social groups. We have stressed that this framework should not be interpreted in a crudely deterministic fashion, which neglects the nuances of the social determinants of health, or individual and community agency. Much of our recent work documents such agency in community-based actions throughout Australia. In this paper we examine Indigenous drinking and its consequences, outline a political economy approach to drinking, and discuss how this has informed our work. We conclude with a discussion of some criticisms of this approach and our responses.

dc.subjectalcohol - substance abuse - Aboriginal
dc.titleTheorising Indigenous health: a political economy of health and substance misuse
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume10
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage21
dcterms.source.endPage32
dcterms.source.titleHealth Sociology review
curtin.identifierEPR-123
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyNational Drug Research Institute


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