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The social determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide...

Consideration of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples must be situated within a context that recognises the impact of racism...

Authors:
Walker R, Scrine C, Shepherd C, Easton C, Dudgeon P.

Authors notes:
The Kids Research Institute Australia & University of Western Australia, 2015.

Keywords:
social determinants, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, suicide, Fact Sheet, Suicide Prevention

Abstract:
Consideration of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (herein Indigenous) must be situated within a context that recognises the impact of racism, a history of colonisation, dispossession and polices of exclusion and child removal and the economic disadvantage many Indigenous people experience.

Indigenous peoples continue to be severely socially and economically disadvantaged.

Studies show the vast array of negative implications this has for Indigenous people.