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Explaining Aboriginal Alcohol Use: Changing Perspectives, Hidden Assumptions

Published:2023 Issue: Volume: Page:17-54
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Container-title:Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs
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d’Abbs Peter,Hewlett Nicole

Abstract

AbstractIn this chapter, we review explanatory frameworksInterpretive frameworks that have been used since the arrival of European colonisers in Australia to interpret Aboriginal alcohol use and provide a foundation for policies and programs. Eight frameworks are discussed: (1) models positing biological differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the effects of alcohol; (2) modelsof Aboriginalalcoholism as a disease; (3) psychological explanations for drinking among Aboriginal people; (4) policy approaches based on viewing alcohol misuse as a publichealth problem; (5) sociological and anthropological explanations for alcohol use by Aboriginal people; (6) explanations grounded in critiques of sociological and anthropological explanations; (7) alcohol misuse interpreted as a product of the social determinants ofhealth and (8) interpretation of alcohol misuse as a product of unresolved, intergenerational trauma. Each of these frameworks has implications for policies and programs which are explored in subsequent chapters.

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Menzies School of Health Research

Publisher

Springer Nature Singapore

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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-981-99-0401-3_2

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