Coronary heart disease in Aboriginal communities: Towards a model for self-management
Vicki Wade
PhD Candidate, School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, University of Western Sydney, Sydney NSW
Debra Jackson
Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Broadway NSW
John Daly
Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health; WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Development, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney NSW
PP: 300 - 309
Abstract
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the main causes of death and disability in the Aboriginal population, and is the major cause of the twenty-year gap in life expectancy of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.
This paper explores Aboriginal health in relation to CHD, and suggests self-management as a culturally acceptable therapeutic and sustainable ideology from which positive outcomes may be achieved.
Keywords
Indigenous; Australian Aborigines; coronary heart disease; self-management; chronic illness
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