Building trust between two cultures; which Social Determinants matter most, and why?
We look at how the same Social Determinants impact both (individual & community) Health, as well as soaring Rates of Incarceration.
[ follow excerpt from interview of Tom Calma, the ATSI Social Justice Commissioner 2004-2009, replaced in that role by Mick Gooda, who is now co-Commissioner for the Royal Commission into the Detention of Children in the NT]
taken from his recent August 2nd interview here https://theconversation.com/politics-podcast-tom-calma-says-nigel-scullion-should-go-63406 – listen from 14.25, excerpt here:
“…we’ve seen another report looking at the social determinants of health, which are all those things that effect our health, and it’s the same determinants that impacts incarceration like employment, education, housing, mental health, all of them, that’s been done – it’s been tabled in parliament and it’s now sitting on a bookshelf.”