Australia: Physical Activity Of Remote Indigenous Australian Women - A Postcolonial Analysis Of Lifestyle

Australia: Physical Activity Of Remote Indigenous Australian Women - A Postcolonial Analysis Of Lifestyle   Doune Macdonald, Rebecca Abbott, and David Jenkins, 2012   In the context of rising chronic diseases amongst Indigenous peoples, there are calls for the adoption of more healthy “lifestyles.” In this context, this paper explores thoughts about physical activity from 21 Indigenous families through the voices of women and girls living in remote rural communities in the Torres...

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