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Historical background including colonisation and conflict, traditional diet, illness patterns, provision of medical services in the N.T., development of town camps in Alice Springs; nutritional status (anthropometric measures) and morbidity findings of town camp children; social and economic conditions in town camps (housing, facilities/services, income/expenditure, kinship ties and domestic groups, ceremonial life (initiation), attitudes toward disease and the ngangkara (healer), dietary patterns, material possessions, alcohol consumption, literacy and schooling.