Indigenous health and climate change

Indigenous-focused content has largely been overlooked in reports on climate change such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This article captures place-based dimensions of climate change vulnerability as well as broader determining factors. The studies focus primarily on Austra...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:American Journal of Public Health
Main Author: Ford, James D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Public Health Association 2012
Subjects:
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
VULNERABILITY
CLIMATE CHANGE
ARCTIC
AUSTRALIA
MENTAL STRESS
POVERTY
Arctic
Climate change
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10625/51211
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2012.300752
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Summary:Indigenous-focused content has largely been overlooked in reports on climate change such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This article captures place-based dimensions of climate change vulnerability as well as broader determining factors. The studies focus primarily on Australia and the Arctic, and indicate significant adaptive capacity in indigenous peoples, with active responses to climate-related health risks. However, non-climatic stresses including poverty, land dispossession, globalization, and associated sociocultural transitions challenge adaptive capacity. These are social determinants of health. The scope for climate change to affect health, therefore, is broader than altering incidence and prevalence of disease.

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