Cultural Resilience and Health Equity: Centering on American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 August 2026 | Viewed by 203
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Indigenous peoples continue to thrive due to their cultural values, strengths, and resilience, despite persistent and systematic adversities at multiple ecological levels occurring across generations. In this Special Issue, we wish to showcase health promotion via cultural frameworks, the centering of cultural values and philosophies, communication strategies, development of measures for Indigenous populations, evaluation approaches, and the determination of health outcome success from an Indigenous perspective. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight interdisciplinary research conducted for and by American Indian and Alaska Native peoples and their communities for the purpose of health promotion.
Dr. Vanessa Hiratsuka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- health promotion
- culturally based interventions
- community driven
- participatory research
- physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health
- decolonizing health and medicine
- Indigenous methodology
- Indigenous-led health initiatives
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