This lecture draws extensively from material presented on the Australian Indigenous Health Infonet web site.

In particular, the summaries of information on health status and on social issues and indicators is gratefully acknowledged.

The web site provides a great deal of information on Indigenous health. Students are encouraged to explore the web site via the hypertext links provided in this lecture, and to explore the primary sources of information used by the site.

Dr Joan Cunningham’s comments on a previous version of this lecture are gratefully acknowledged.