Abstract
Improving the health of Australian Aborigines remains a challenge for health care professionals. Understanding the meaning of the term health is central to this issue. There are cultural differences that must be considered, and here the traditional Aboriginal view of health is compared with that of the World Health Organization.
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David Hains
David Hains is a first year nursing student at the University of South Australia and wrote this paper as part of a Nursing Practice unit, undertaken in 1993, the Year of Indigenous People.