Housing and health in Indigenous communities: key issues for housing and health improvement in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Bailie, R.S.; Wayte, K.J.

Australian Journal of Rural Health 14(5): 178-183

2006


ISSN/ISBN: 1038-5282
PMID: 17032292
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2006.00804.x
Document Number: 198717
Indigenous people living in remote communities face some particular difficulties with regard to housing and its impact on their health. This paper reviews the contemporary international understanding of the relationship between housing and health, the history of settlement and housing conditions in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and some of the recent initiatives to improve housing in these communities.

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