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Mutual obligation and Indigenous health: thinking through incentives and obligations
Author(s) -
Kowal Emma
Publication year - 2006
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.1326-5377.2006.tb00241.x
Subject(s) - obligation , indigenous , darwin (adl) , citation , incentive , library science , sociology , political science , law , engineering , computer science , biology , ecology , economics , microeconomics , systems engineering
As shared responsibility agreements between Indigenous communities and the Australian Government become more prevalent, where their goal is health improvement we need to consider whether the rewards and obligatory behaviours are acceptable, whether communities have real freedom of choice, whether the arrangements can be implemented and evaluated, and whether they will improve health.