Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- identify and characterize the key characteristics of publicly available planning, policy, and reporting documents relevant to remote Indigenous communities in the NT;
- classify community-level built and socio-political environmental indicators using an Indigenous indicator classification system (IICS).
2. Study Context
3. Materials and Methods
- Indigenous Australian OR Aboriginal OR Torres Strait Islander AND;
- community AND;
- environment AND;
- plan OR policy OR report AND;
- Northern Territory OR NT.
- The organization is responsible for the delivery of community health and environmental programs to Indigenous people specific to one or more remote communities in the NT;
- the organization publishes community-level policy, reporting, evaluation, strategic planning, or local planning documents with a focus relevant to health and wellbeing, including preventable infectious disease and chronic disease; and
- the organization is a member of a peak body in the NT.
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Criterion No. | Descriptions |
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1. | Specific to Indigenous people living in one or more remote communities identified for the EnRICH Project in the NT, Australia. |
2. | Represent policy, reporting, evaluation, strategic planning, or local planning documents with a focus relevant to health and wellbeing, including preventable chronic disease and/or infectious disease. |
3. | Must contain one or more identifiable community-level objective or subjective built and socio-political environmental indicators relevant to the social determinants of health. |
4. | Show evidence of consultation (e.g., provide details on who participated, venue, date, and nature of input provided and not merely refer to “the community was consulted”) with Indigenous community members, representatives, or frontline professionals working in the areas of public and environmental health.1 |
5. | Publicly available online or in other formats published by government and non-government organizations in the most recent year but not earlier than 2001. |
6. | Regional and state or territory level documents were included if they had relevance to one or more communities identified for the EnRICH Project in the NT, Australia. |
Types of Documents | Descriptive Statistics | No. of Unique Indicator Statements | |
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Included | Excluded | ||
Community-level plan (n = 31) | N (number of indicator statements) | 1458 | 276 |
Mean | 47.0 | 8.9 | |
SD | 35.1 | 7.3 | |
Median | 46.0 | 8.0 | |
1st Qtl (0.25) | 16.0 | 2.0 | |
3rd Qtl (0.75) | 72.5 | 13.0 | |
Min | 5 | 0 | |
Max | 120 | 30 | |
Regional-level plan (n = 8) | N (number of indicator statements) | 455 | 265 |
Mean | 56.9 | 33.1 | |
SD | 33.0 | 22.8 | |
Median | 58.5 | 42.0 | |
1st Qtl (0.25) | 32.7 | 11.5 | |
3rd Qtl (0.75) | 79.25 | 47.0 | |
Min | 9 | 3 | |
Max | 99 | 62 |
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Chakraborty, A.; Daniel, M.; Howard, N.J.; Chong, A.; Slavin, N.; Brown, A.; Cargo, M. Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 4167. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084167
Chakraborty A, Daniel M, Howard NJ, Chong A, Slavin N, Brown A, Cargo M. Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(8):4167. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084167
Chicago/Turabian StyleChakraborty, Amal, Mark Daniel, Natasha J. Howard, Alwin Chong, Nicola Slavin, Alex Brown, and Margaret Cargo. 2021. "Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 8: 4167. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084167
APA StyleChakraborty, A., Daniel, M., Howard, N. J., Chong, A., Slavin, N., Brown, A., & Cargo, M. (2021). Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(8), 4167. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084167