One Health in Indigenous Communities: A Critical Review of the Evidence
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Indigenous Approach
2.2. Search Strategy
- Ecohealth: ‘Ecohealth is committed to fostering the health of humans, animals, and ecosystems and to conducting research which recognizes the inextricable linkages between the health of all species and their environments’ [9] (p. 3);
- One Health: ‘One Health is the collaborative effort of multiple health science professions, together with their related disciplines, and institutions—working locally, nationally, and globally—to attain optimal health for people, domestic animals, wildlife, plants, and our environment’ [9] (p. 2–3);
- One Welfare: ‘One Welfare describes the inter-relationship between animal welfare, human wellbeing and the physical and social environment’ [7] (p. 1);
- Planetary Health: ‘The achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, well-being, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human systems—political, economic, and social—that shape the future of humanity and the Earth’s natural systems that define the safe environmental limits within which humanity can flourish’ [9] (p. 4).
2.3. Literature Sources and Search Terms
2.4. Selection of Studies
- Original research;
- Written in English;
- Published between 2010 and 2020;
- Full text available;
- One Health, Ecohealth, Planetary Health, or One Welfare focus;
- Animal, human, and/or environmental health component (at least two of these);
- An indigenous group as the main human population of interest.
2.5. Summarising and Assessing the Strength of Evidence (SOE)
- 0 domains met = insufficient SOE;
- 1–2 domains met = low SOE;
- 3–4 domains met = moderate SOE;
- 5–6 domains met = high SOE.
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Domain | Search Terms |
---|---|
Indigenous groups | Indigenous OR “First Nations” OR “First People” OR Aboriginal OR “Torres Strait Islander” OR “Native American” OR Inuit OR Maori OR Sami OR “Local tribe” OR “African tribe” OR Amazonian |
One Health | “One Health” OR “One Welfare” OR Ecohealth OR “Planetary Health” |
Animals | Animal * |
Humans | Human * OR People * OR Person |
Environment | Environment* OR Ecosystem* |
SOE | One Health Sectors N (%) | Indigenous Viewpoint N (%) | Total Studies N (%) | Corresponding Literature | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Human and Animal | Human and Environment | Human, Animal, and Environment | Yes | No | |||
High | 2 (33) | 1 (17) | 3 (50) | 6 (100) | 0 (0) | 6 (25) | [36,37,38,39,40,41] |
Moderate | 4 (36) | 2 (18) | 5 (45) | 10 (91) | 1 (9) | 11 (46) | [13,15,20,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49] |
Low | 2 (29) | 0 (0) | 5 (71) | 3 (43) | 4 (57) | 7 (29) | [50,51,52,53,54,55,56] |
Insufficient | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
Total | 8 (33) | 3 (13) | 13 (54) | 19 (79) | 5 (21) | 24 |
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Riley, T.; Anderson, N.E.; Lovett, R.; Meredith, A.; Cumming, B.; Thandrayen, J. One Health in Indigenous Communities: A Critical Review of the Evidence. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 11303. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111303
Riley T, Anderson NE, Lovett R, Meredith A, Cumming B, Thandrayen J. One Health in Indigenous Communities: A Critical Review of the Evidence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(21):11303. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111303
Chicago/Turabian StyleRiley, Tamara, Neil E. Anderson, Raymond Lovett, Anna Meredith, Bonny Cumming, and Joanne Thandrayen. 2021. "One Health in Indigenous Communities: A Critical Review of the Evidence" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 21: 11303. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111303