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Accepted Paper:

The social determinants of Indigenous youth  
Richard Chenhall (University of Melbourne) Kate Senior (University of Newcastle)

Paper short abstract:

This paper will discuss the social determinants of Indigenous youth health from the perspective of young people living in the remote Aboriginal community of Ngukurr in SW Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.

Paper long abstract:

The social determinants of health has been a dominant discourse in public health, both framing the way health is understood but also directing the way government intervenes in the lives of others. This paper will examine how the social determinants of youth is constructed in this discourse. What is different about the social determinants for young people? How do young people themselves understand the concepts that lie behind the social determinants and how do these relate to larger policy influences in their lives? We will do this through an ethnographic examination of the lives of young people living in Ngukurr, a remote Indigenous community in South east Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory.

Panel Med02
Indigenous youth futures in the Northern territory: living the social determinants of health
  Session 1