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Author Saggers, Sherry.

Title Dealing with alcohol : indigenous usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada / Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
©1998

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Description vii, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. What's the harm? -- 3. The broader context of alcohol use -- 4. Patterns of indigenous alcohol use -- 5. Explanations of indigenous alcohol use -- 6. The supply and promotion of alcohol to indigenous Australian communities -- 7. The consequences of misuse -- 8. What's being done? -- 9. Determining what works: program evaluation -- 10. Where to from here?
Summary "The devastating impact of alcohol on indigenous populations is well known, but debate often overlooks the broad context of the problem and the priorities of indigenous people themselves. This book has been written with the desire to improve the level of informed debate, and lead to constructive action. It aims to provide readers with a coherent explanation of alcohol misuse among indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The extensive health, economic, social and cultural consequences of misuse are described in the words of indigenous people themselves. The book finds that patterns of indigenous alcohol consumption cannot be understood in isolation from the impact of European colonialism and its continuing consequences. Its authors argue that our understanding of alcohol misuse needs to be reconceptualised and structural inequalities addressed."--Jacket
Analysis Aboriginal Australians - Alcohol use
Alcoholism - Australia
Indians of North America - Alcohol use
Indigenous peoples - Alcohol Use
Maori (New Zealand people) - Alcohol use
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 208-232
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Alcohol use.
Alcoholism -- New Zealand.
Alcoholism -- Australia.
Alcoholism -- Canada.
Indians of North America -- Alcohol use -- Canada.
Indigenous peoples -- Alcohol use.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Alcohol use.
Alcoholism -- epidemiology.
American Native Continental Ancestry Group.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Canada. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170
New Zealand. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009520
Australia -- epidemiology. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315Q000453
Canada -- epidemiology. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170Q000453
New Zealand -- epidemiology. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009520Q000453
Author Gray, Dennis, 1947-
LC no. 98007278
ISBN 0521620325
0521629772 (paperback)