So, this assignment has us seeking videos of whatever indigenous culture we selected and, seeing as how I picked Aboriginal Australians, that’s the group of people I had to seek out. It was easier said than done, seeing as how one of them had to be emic. It was pretty hard to dig up a […]

For this assignment, I am focusing on the Aboriginal population of Australia and the health issues they face. The Aboriginal Australians primarily live in Australia’s Northern Territory, where their percentage of the population clocks in at thirty percent of the population. Elsewhere, they make up only a little over four percent of the local population. […]

One of the things that surprised me in the slideshow was the idea that public health is a “negative”. When things are going well, nothing is happening and that’s the point. I never really thought about it that way, I guess? A second thing that surprised me was the fact that heart disease is a leading […]

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