Hard Yakka by Nili Kaplan-Myrth - 9780739114100

Hard YakkaTransforming Indigenous Health Policy and Politics\nAuthor(s): Nili Kaplan-Myrth\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739114100, 978-0739114100\nSynopsis\nIndigenous and other marginalized populations worldwide experience significant health inequalities - life expectancies reduced by decades, elevated rates of chronic disease, neonatal mortality, accidental death, infectious disease and suicide. Australia is one of the healthiest countries in the world with one of the most dramatic examples of social inequalities in [url] Yakka: Transforming Indigenous Health Policy and Politics examines these inequalities through a critical study of Australian health bureaucracy. The author, medical anthropologist Nili Kaplan-Myrth, discusses and evaluates processes and institutional structures that influence relationships between Indigenous communities and goverment in the development, implementation, and evaluation.