Utz wachil: Findings from an international study of indigenous perspectives on health and environment

EcoHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 461-471

  Nettleton, Clive ^a   Stephens, Carolyn ^a   Bristow, Fiona ^a   Claro, Susan ^b   Hart, Thomas ^b   McCausland, Caroline ^b   Mijlof, Ingrid ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Health Unlimited   (United Kingdom)

^c Health Unlimited ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; Health; Indigenous; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; KNOWLEDGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WELLBEING;

EID: 37349075361     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-007-0138-9     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. ACHPR I (2005) Report of the Africa Commission's Working Group of Experts on Indigenous Populations/Communities
2. Anderson I, Crengle S, Kamaka ML, Chen T-H, Palafox N, Jackson-Pulver L (2006) Indigenous Health: Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. The Lancet 367(9524):1775-1785
3. Athias R (2004) Indigenous Traditional Medicine among the Hupd'ah-Maku of Tiquié River (Brazil). In: The Right to Health of Indigenous Peoples, Report of a conference held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Willis R (editor)
4. Betti JL (2004) An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants among the Baka Pygmies in the Dja biosphere reserve, Cameroon. African Study Monographs 25:1-27
5. Bristow F, Stephens C, Nettleton C (2003). Utz W'achil: Health and Wellbeing among Indigenous Peoples. London: Health Unlimited/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
6. Cabrera AD (2003) Evaluación de matales pesados en ribereños del rio Pilcomayo Oeste formoseño. Tesis de Maestria, Resistencia, Chaco
7. Carmack RM (1973). Quichean Civilization: the Ethnohistoric, Ethnographic, and Archaeological Sources. Berkeley: University of California Press
8. Chang HK (2001) Hawaiian health practitioners in contemporary society. Pacific Health Dialog 8:260-273
9. Chiu A, Beaubier J, Chiu J, Chan L, Gerstenberger S (2004) Epidemiologic studies of PCB congener profiles in North American fish consuming populations. Journal of Environmental Science and Health. Part C, Environmental Carcinogenesis & Ecotoxicology Reviews 22:13-36
10. Cook BP (2001) A call for respect and equality for indigenous scholarship in Hawaiian health. Pacific Health Dialog 8:368-374
11. Crengle S (2000) The development of Maori primary care services. Pacific Health Dialog 7:48-53
12. Fink S (2002) International efforts spotlight traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine. American Journal of Public Health 92:1734-1739
13. Hemming J (2003) Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians in the Twentieth Century. London: Macmilllan
14. Hickman MS, Miller D (2001) Indigenous ways of healing guinea worm by the Sonninke culture in Mauritania, West Africa. Hawaii Medical Journal 60:95-98
15. Janes CR (1999) The health transition, global modernity and the crisis of traditional medicine: the Tibetan case. Social Science and Medicine 48:1803-1820
16. Kampe K (1997) Introduction: Indigenous Peoples of South East Asia. In: McCaskill D, Kampe K (editors) Development or Domestication: Indigenous Peoples of South East Asia. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books
17. Kong JM, Goh NK, Chia LS, Chia TF (2003) Recent advances in traditional plant drugs and orchids. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica 24:7-21
18. Kuhnlein HV, Chan HM (2000) Environment and contaminants in traditional food systems of northern indigenous peoples. Annual Review of Nutrition 20:595-626
19. Louw CA, Regnier TJ, Korsten L (2002) Medicinal bulbous plants of South Africa and their traditional relevance in the control of infectious diseases. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 82:147-154
20. Mail PD, McKay RB, Katz M (1989) Expanding practice horizons: learning from American Indian patients. Patient Education and Counseling 13:91-102
21. Maybury-Lewis D (2002) Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups and the State. Needham, MA: Allyn & Bacon
22. McCaskill D (1997) From Tribal People to Ethnic Minorities: The transformation of Indigenous peoples: a theoretical discussion. In: McCaskill DK (editor) Development or Domestication: Indigenous Peoiples of Southeast Asia. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, pp 26-61
23. McCausland C (1991). Spiritual Health and Natural Resources. In:
24. Ministerio de Salud (2006) 2005: Año de logros en salud indígena. Ministerio de Salud de Venezuela
25. Smith M (1999) Burma: Insurgancy and the Politics of Ethnicity. 2nd ed., London: Zed Books
26. Stephens C, Nettleton C, Porter J, Willis R, Clark S (2005) Indigenous peoples' health-why are they behind everyone, everywhere? The Lancet 366:10-13
27. Stephens C, Porter J, Nettleton C, Willis R (2006) Disappearing, displaced, and undervalued: a call to action for Indigenous health worldwide. The Lancet 367:2019-2028
28. Suzman J (2001) An Introduction to the Regional Assessment of the San in Southern Africa, Windhoek: Legal Assistance Centre
29. Trotti JL (2001) Compensation versus colonization: a common heritage approach to the use of indigenous medicine in developing Western pharmaceuticals. Food and Drug Law Journal 56:367-383
30. UNHCHR (United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights) (1994) Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In:
31. United Nations Economic and Social Council (2004) Report of the workshop on data collection and disaggregation for indigenous peoples, New York, 19-21 January 2004
32. United Nations General Assembly (2005) Draft Programme of Action for the Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
33. Van Oostdam J, Gilman A, Dewailly E, Usher P, Wheatley B, Kuhnlein H, et al. (1999) Human health implications of environmental contaminants in Arctic Canada: a review. Science of the Total Environment 230:1-82
34. Vindig D, Stidsen S (editors) (2005) The Indigenous World 2005. Copenhagen: International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs
35. WHO (2002) Report by the Secretariat on the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (A55/35), 55th WHA, 18 April 2002
36. WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2007) Social determinants and Indigenous health: The International experience and its policy implications. Report on specially prepared documents, presentations and discussion at the International Symposium on the Social Determinants of Indigenous Health, Adelaide, 29-30 April 2007, for the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH). Available at http://www.who.int/entity/ social_determinants/resources/indigenous_health_adelaide_report_07.pdf [accessed July 2007]
37. Willis R, Stephens C, Nettleton C (2004) The Right to Health of Indigenous Peoples. Report of a conference held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Willis R (editor)