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Fuzzy cognitive mapping and soft models of indigenous knowledge on maternal health in Guerrero, Mexico

Published in BMC Medical Research Methodology

BackgroundEffective health care requires services that are responsive to local needs and contexts. Achieving this in indigenous settings implies communication between traditional and conventional medicine perspectives. Adequate interaction is especially relevant for maternal health because cultural practices have a notable role during pregnancy, ch...

Using developmental evaluation to enhance continuous reflection, learning and adaptation of an innovation platform in Au...

Published in Health Research Policy and Systems

Effective efforts to strengthen health systems need diverse, multi-stakeholder networks working together on complex or ‘wicked’ problems such as prevention and control of chronic diseases, solutions to which go beyond the role and capability of one organisation. The contextual complexities inherent in ‘wicked’ problems mean that solutions warrant a...

Climatic Changes, Water Systems, and Adaptation Challenges in Shawi Communities in the Peruvian Amazon

Climate change impacts on water systems have consequences for Indigenous communities. We documented climatic changes on water systems observed by Indigenous Shawi and resultant impacts on health and livelihoods, and explored adaptation options and challenges in partnership with two Indigenous Shawi communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Qualitative da...

The link between hearing impairment and child maltreatment among Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory of Austra...

Published in BMC Public Health

BackgroundInternational studies provide evidence of an association between child disabilities, including hearing impairment (HI), and child maltreatment. There are high prevalences of ear disease with associated HI, and child maltreatment among Australian Aboriginal children, but the link between HI and child maltreatment is unknown. This study inv...

Built Environments and Cardiometabolic Morbidity and Mortality in Remote Indigenous Communities in the Northern Territor...

Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

The health of Indigenous Australians is dramatically poorer than that of the non-Indigenous population. Amelioration of these differences has proven difficult. In part, this is attributable to a conceptualisation which approaches health disparities from the perspective of individual-level health behaviours, less so the environmental conditions that...

The coin model of privilege and critical allyship: implications for health

Published in BMC Public Health

Health inequities are widespread and persistent, and the root causes are social, political and economic as opposed to exclusively behavioural or genetic. A barrier to transformative change is the tendency to frame these inequities as unfair consequences of social structures that result in disadvantage, without also considering how these same struct...