Promoting Indigenous Health Equity and Well-Being
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 58
Special Issue Editor
Interests: structural determinants of health; community-based participatory action research; health services research and policy and health promotion, program and policy implementation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Indigenous peoples across the globe experience disproportionately poor health outcomes compared to non-Indigenous groups. These outcomes do not occur in a vacuum but are shaped by social, structural, and political determinants of health that are fundamentally tied to settler colonialism, neo-colonialism, and other colonialist projects. Moreover, advances in healthcare as concerns knowledge, technology, and access to health-related resources are unequally distributed, and addressing these inequities requires understanding the mechanisms that produce and sustain them. Thus, this Special Issue will highlight research, narratives, policies, and practices that expand our understanding of Indigenous health and promote Indigenous well-being. I welcome voices of Indigenous health scholars, organizers, advocates, and practitioners, as well as non-Indigenous allies and co-conspirators who work in these spaces across to globe, to contribute to this Issue. Contributions that address Indigenous well-being at intersections of institutional racism, sexism and misogyny, heteronormativity, climate crisis, war and displacement, and food systems are particularly sought, as are contributions that can inform efforts to build multi-cultural, transnational and inter-generational movements to advance Indigenous health. Articles for this Special Issue can be (or concern) research papers, policy insights, perspectives, and lessons learned. We welcome your contributions.
Dr. Sirry M. Alang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Indigenous health
- health sovereignty
- Indigenous well-being
- aboriginal health
- health equity
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