ABSTRACT
An emerging area of research involves the relationship between Indigenous peoples’ social and emotional well-being and their participation in mainstream education. This research has led commentators to suggest that a focus on the quality and cultural appropriateness of mainstream education is an important consideration when determining education’s impact on Indigenous health outcomes. In a seminal article entitled ‘Aboriginal self-determination, education and health: Towards a radical change in attitudes to education’, K. Tsey notes the dearth of research evidence to substantiate an association between educational attainment and Indigenous health outcomes in Australia. A framework proposed by D. Ewald and B. Boughton represents a potentially useful way of thinking about factors that combine with education to impact on the health of Indigenous peoples in rural and remote Indigenous communities in Australia. The proportion of Indigenous youth aged 15–24 years attending a higher education institution declined between 1996 and 2001.
