Aboriginal burning in Australia has long been assumed to be a �resource management� strategy, but no quantitative tests of this hypothesis have ever been conducted. We combine ethnographic observations of contemporary Aboriginal hunting and burning with satellite image analysis of anthropogenic and natural landscape structure to ...

Australia has embarked on a National Aboriginal Health Strategy that aims to give aboriginals equal access to health services by 2001. Although the harmful effects of colonization are now recognized, it is not possible to eradicate overnight the health problems resulting from 200 years of mistreatment and neglect, officials say. In ...

In this paper I will describe some of the sentinel events in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy and strategy during 2003 and the early part of 2004. This will involve discussion on the:� National Strategic Framework in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health� National Strategic Framework for ...

Western health professionals often experience difficulties in service delivery to Aboriginal people because of the disparity between Aboriginal and Western health belief systems. This article reviews the literature which considers 'traditional' Aboriginal health beliefs and medical systems. The traditional ...

3551 - Aboriginal Tourism:An Introduction ________________ ___________ Management 3580 - Aboriginal and Entrepreneurship in Canada ________________ ___________ Management 4551 - Aboriginal Tourism Issues and Strategies pursue the Bachelor of Management as a second degree. Admission to Management programs is ...

of interest. #12;2 The Law Foundation Chair in Police Studies has, as a central thrust to its research, a focus on the inter-relationship of Aboriginal cultures, policing and justice policy. As well, our Police Studies: - The establishment of a permanent Aboriginal recruitment position as part of the overall recruitment strategy

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether Canadian family medicine residency programs currently have objectives, staff, and clinical experiences for adequately exposing residents to aboriginal health issues. DESIGN: A one-page questionnaire was developed to survey the details of teaching about and exposure to aboriginal health issues. SETTING: Family medicine ...

Objective: Social gradients in Aboriginal health are seldom explored. This study describes social gradients and trends in smoking during pregnancy among Aboriginal mothers in NSW. Methods: This was a secondary analysis of the NSW Midwives Data Collection (MDC) 1994-2007, covering all births in NSW. Analyses examined associations between socio-demographic ...

... foraging strategies and niche dynamics of American Avocets (Recurvirostra americana), Long-billed Dowitchers (Limnodromus scolopaceus), Least Sandpipers (Calidris ... ...

ObjectivesTo conduct an exploratory, comparative study of the utilisation and effectiveness of tobacco cessation quitlines among aboriginal and non?aboriginal Canadian smokers.SettingPopulation based quitlines that provide free cessation information, advice and counselling to Canadian smokers.SubjectsFirst time quitline callers, age 18?years of age and ...

Canada does not have enough aboriginal nurses and aboriginal nursing faculty. Consequently, there is an inadequate number of nurses to meet both on- and off-reserve and community health care staffing needs. In 2002, Health Canada asked the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing to facilitate a national task force that would examine ...

with a series of traditional lectures on foraging and nutrition theory with its application to primate studies topics of primate foraging and the application of theory to the feeding and nutritional strategies) Introduction to Primate Feeding and Foraging theory1 Foraging models Food ...

A number of researchers have found substantial sex, population and group differences in adiposity and fat-distribution patterns, but there is relatively little information on body fat distribution in Aboriginal groups, especially for the indigenous people of Australia. This study, the largest of its kind for Australian Aboriginal people, presents ...

... visits in large numbers are influenced by the �big bang� flowering strategy (Gentry, 1974). By feeding on the ... ...