Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Nyernila Koories kila degaia, listen up to Koories speak about health, editors, Joan Vickery, Angela Clarke and Karen Adams

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-190)

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Nyernila Koories kila degaia

editors, Joan Vickery, Angela Clarke and Karen Adams

listen up to Koories speak about health

Traces the development of culturally responsive and community-controlled health care for Aboriginal people in Victoria, through the stories of Koories who have been involved in the health care area

Pt 1: Gommera ("elders" in Gunnai language): oral history, health research and decolonisation; Koorie concept of health; About the oral histories -- The oral histories: Aunty Alma Thorpe: Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, Fitzroy -- Barbara Gibson-Thorpe: Dja Dja Wurrungh, Bendigo -- Aunty Bella Kennedy: Swan Hill District and Goolum-Goolum Co-ooperative, Horsham -- Aunty Bess Yarram: Ramahyuck Aboriginal Co-operative, Sale -- Dr Bill Roberts: Victorian Aboriginal Dental Service at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, Fitzroy -- Uncle Brian Davis and Aunty Maisie (Clark) Davis : Framlingham -- Dr Bruce McGuinness: Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, Fitzroy -- Aunty Edna Rose (Lovett Clarke) Brown: Aboriginal Funeral Benefits Fund and Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, Fitzroy; Aunty Gwen Atkinson: Rumbalara Aboriginal Co-operative, Mooroopna-Shepparton -- Aunty Iris Lovett Gardiner: Aboriginal Community Elders Service and Lake Condah Mission -- Aunty Jemmes Jandy, Uncle Kevin King and Ken Knight: Mildura Aboriginal Co-operative -- Aunty Joan Vickery, AO: Koorie Diabetes Services -- Uncle Robert (Jumbo) Pearce and Aunty Marion Pearce: Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-operative, Bairnsdale -- Kelvin King: Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, Fitzroy and Dhau Wurd Wurrung Elderly Citizens Association, Portland -- Uncle Kevin Coombs, OAM: Koorie Health Unit -- Lester Green: Ngwala Willumbong and Galiamble Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Services -- Aunty Lucy Briggs and Aunty Lil Pettit: Murray Valley Aboriginal Co-operative, Robinvale -- Aunty Lyn McInnes : Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operatice, Geelong -- Aunty Melva Johnston: Njernda Aboriginal Co-operative, Echuca -- Aunty Nessie Skuta, OAM: Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-operative, Bairnsdale -- Aunty Olive (Ollie) Tregonning: Bung Yarnda, Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust -- Uncle Paddy Dalton: Central Gippsland Aboriginal Health and Housing Co-operative, Morwell -- Aunty Rita Watkins: Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, Fitzroy -- Aunty Thelma Edwards: Lake Condah Mission and Warrnambool area --Listening to the oral histories == Pt 2: Nguttay ("Understand" in Gunnai language) -- Koorie Health Services in Victoria: Aboriginal community controlled health services; First newsletter of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service -- Reports from the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service and East Gippsland Aboriginal Medical Services to the First National Gathering of Aboriginal Medical Services in 1974 -- Aboriginal community controlled health organisations' health priorities -- Victorian Aboriginal health workers -- Koorie hospital liaison officers -- Koorie health in Victoria: population, age structure, births, hospital admissions, deaths

Listen up to Koories speak about health