Health and Health Care for Indigenous People

Dear Colleagues,

Nearly two decades following the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, significant progress has been made through the efforts to restore Indigenous health and health care. The reorientation towards equity, holism, cultural safety, systems’ change, Indigenous sovereignty, and the forms of shared governance corresponds to dual decolonizing and re-indigenizing pathways/goals. However, in the face of ongoing and emerging challenges—health inequities, the lack of political will and representation, human rights violations, and environmental degradation to name a few—how do we maintain this positive momentum?

In this Special Issue, we welcome scholarly opinion pieces and research articles from practitioners, researchers, scholars, and Indigenous community members working in the areas of Indigenous health and health care. We are particularly interested in submissions that reflect on decolonial and/or Indigenous initiatives with a view of informing and responding to the evolving health landscapes.

Dr. Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll
Dr. Denise Blake
Dr. Jalal Mohammed
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Indigenous health
• Indigenous health care
• decolonization
• re-indigenization
• health equity
• health systems
• determinants of health
• social justice