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What's the big deal?: Aboriginal gambling in the Kimberley region
Author(s) -
Hunter Ernest M.,
Spargo Randolph M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb120817.x
Subject(s) - population , resource (disambiguation) , public health , psychology , business , development economics , public economics , political science , economics , environmental health , medicine , computer science , computer network , nursing
We have provided a description of gambling within the Aboriginal population of the Kimberley region. We suggest that rather than being an innocuous pastime, gambling has substantial public‐health impli‐ cations with physical, psychological and social costs. Such consequences as compromised nutrition, impaired parenting and the entrenchment of patterns of resource utilization that are inimical to planned development clearly have an impact that extends widely beyond those who actually hold the cards.