Chronic diseases and related unhealthy lifestyles such as smoking were for a long time thought to be an issue that was exclusive to the rich, industrialised countries of North America and Europe. In contrast, the problems in sub-Saharan Africa were deemed to be infectious diseases and malnutrition. If anything, the cultivation, production and trade of tobacco was viewed as critical to the economic development and health of the former colonies.
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Joint Seminar Series of the WZB Junior Research Groups "Global Humanitarian Medicine" and
Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2018
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Lecture by David Reubi, King’s College London
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Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2018
Beginn: 16:00 Uhr
Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2018
Racism and Australian First Nations Peoples: Creating a 3rd World Population in a 1st World Country?
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MAD Colloquium: Lecture by Fiona Stanley and Carrington Shepherd, both University of Western Australia
Beschreibung
The health and wellbeing of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (First Nations; Indigenous) has been profoundly shaped by the circumstances of the past, and most particularly by the events and conditions in Australia since colonisation in the late 18th Century. As such, the striking inequalities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians cannot be understood without an appreciation of the history and persistent impact over time of profound dispossession, exclusion, discrimination, marginalisation and inequality, in various forms.
Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2018
Beginn: 11:00 Uhr
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Katrin Ludwig
Katrin.Ludwig [at] wzb.eu