Coronary heart disease in Aboriginal communities: towards a model for self-management.
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.
Wade
Vicki
V
School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Jackson
Debra
D
Daly
John
J
D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000401:mortality; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012648:Self Care