The determinants of planetary health: an Indigenous consensus perspective

Nicole Redvers; Yuria Celidwen; Clinton Schultz; Ojistoh Horn; Cicilia Githaiga; Melissa Vera; Marlikka Perdrisat; Lynn Mad Plume; Daniel Kobei; Myrna Cunningham Kain; Anne Poelina; Juan Nelson Rojas; Be'sha Blondin

doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00354-5

The determinants of planetary health: an Indigenous consensus perspective

Lancet Planet Health. 2022 Feb;6(2):e156-e163. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00354-5.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Indigenous Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA; Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation, Yellowknife, NT, Canada. Electronic address: nicole.redvers@und.edu.
² Pull Together Now, Lincoln, MT, USA.
³ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bond University, Robina, QLD, Australia.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁵ ABS Capacity Development Initiative, Eschborn, Germany.
⁶ School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁷ Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁸ Department of Indigenous Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA.
⁹ Ogiek Peoples' Development Program, Egerton, Kenya.
¹⁰ El Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y El Caribe, La Paz, Bolivia.
¹¹ Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome, WA, Australia.
¹² Pull Together Now, Lincoln, MT, USA; Pipil Indigenous Council of Firekeepers and Healers, Santa Tecla, El Salvador.
¹³ Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation, Yellowknife, NT, Canada.

PMID: 35150624
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00354-5

Abstract

Indigenous Peoples have resiliently weathered continued assaults on their sovereignty and rights throughout colonialism and its continuing effects. Indigenous Peoples' sovereignty has been strained by the increasing effects of global environmental change within their territories, including climate change and pollution, and by threats and impositions against their land and water rights. This continuing strain against sovereignty has prompted a call to action to conceptualise the determinants of planetary health from a perspective that embodied Indigenous-specific methods of knowledge gathering from around the globe. A group of Indigenous scholars, practitioners, land and water defenders, respected Elders, and knowledge-holders came together to define the determinants of planetary health from an Indigenous perspective. Three overarching levels of interconnected determinants, in addition to ten individual-level determinants, were identified as being integral to the health and sustainability of the planet, Mother Earth.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

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Climate Change
Colonialism
Consensus
Humans
Indigenous Peoples*
Planets*