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Health Care as Commons: Rediscovering Indigenous Health Systems to Improve the Well-being of the Orang Asli in Malaysia

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posted on 2019-10-09, 04:31 authored by YOUNG SOON WONG
In many countries, indigenous peoples suffer poorer health compared with the rest of the population. The reasons for this health disparity are a higher burden of disease, poverty, oppression and historical marginalisation. Efforts to close this health gap through modern health systems have largely plateaued and a broader understanding of indigenous health systems is needed. Through an ethnographic study of Malaysia’s Orang Asli traditional health care system, this thesis postulates that indigenous peoples organise their health systems more comprehensively that is based on the Commons and that this may provide the key to closing the health disparity gap.

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Principal supervisor

Daniel Reidpath

Additional supervisor 1

Pascale Allotey

Year of Award

2019

Department, School or Centre

Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences (Monash University Malaysia)

Campus location

Malaysia

Course

Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Type

DOCTORATE

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Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

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