Growing up our way: beyond social determinants in the aetiology of growth faltering

Title: Growing up our way: beyond social determinants in the aetiology of growth faltering
Creator: Boulton, John
Relation: Aboriginal Children, History and Health: Beyond Social Determinants p. 205-224
Relation: http://www.tandfebooks.com/action/showBook?doi=10.4324%2F9781315666501&
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2016
Description: In this chapter I draw together the diverse threads of the previous chapters in order to provide a different way of understanding the discrepancy that exists in every measure of health, education, and physical and emotional wellbeing between children in remote Aboriginal Australia and children in mainstream urban society. I then present an argument as to why we need to go beyond, far beyond, the construct of social determinants of health to explain the proximal (immediate) cause of why Aboriginal children in remote communities are at such a high risk of poor health. This is followed by a description of the contrasting beliefs and practices of child rearing in Aboriginal and Western societies, and how this provides an explanation for why Aboriginal children's health is continuously at risk, and why they perform so poorly on measures of school readiness and performance.
Subject: remote Aboriginal Austraila; Aboriginal health; Aboriginal education; emotional well being
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1344159
Identifier: uon:29338
Identifier: ISBN:9781138955240
Language: eng

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