A risky business? Health and physical activity from the perspectives of urban Australian Indigenous young people.
Being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in contemporary Australia is often discursively constructed in health literature as equating with risks of many kinds. This article explores the ways in which a group of urban Australian Indigenous young people perceive, navigate and articulate the so-calle...
| Publicado en: | Health, Risk & Society Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 325 - 341 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2012
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