Values-based indicators of risks to Indigenous health have the potential to improve the accuracy and quality of a wide range of decisions affecting Native lands and cultures. Current health impact assessment approaches often omit important health priorities rooted in the history, social structures, and cultural context of Indigenous communities. Insights and methods from the decision sciences c...

In the Global South, Indigenous and Native people continue to live under colonial relations within formally independent nation-states. Sebastian Garbe offers a critical perspective on contemporary expressions of international solidarity transnational advocacy. He combines approaches from race decolonial studies with an activist ethnography networked spaces encounters created through activism by...

Abstract This paper critically discusses the increasing trend in human microbiome research to draw on concept of race. refers attempt investigate microbial profile certain social and ethnic groups as embodied racial traits. Here, race is treated a necessary category that helps identifying solving health challenges, like obesity type-2 diabetes, ‘western’ or indigenous populations with particula...

The social inequities highlighted by the racial injustice protests of 2020 and COVID-19 pandemic challenge work profession to respond past present consequences that disproportionately impact Black, Indigenous, People Color (BIPOC). We argue work's commitment justice has not taken up an explicit anti-racism mission eradicate white supremacy, racism, coloniality in profession. further although se...

Bolivian migrants in Brazil are commonly categorised as ‘indians’ who ‘enslaved’ São Paulo's garment industry. Simultaneously, self-identified indigenous peoples Brazilian urban centres constantly challenged to the authenticity of their claims indigeneity. This article explores racialisation based on an ethnography two street markets Paulo, social and spatial mobilities articulate race class hi...

BACKGROUND Navajo Nation Community Health Representatives (CHR) are trained community health workers (CHWs) who provide crucial services for patients and families. The success of the CHRs' interventions depends on the interactions between the CHRs and their clients. This research investigates the culturally specific factors that build and sustain the CHR-client interaction. METHODS In-depth i...

BACKGROUND As the prevalence of obesity increases in developing countries, the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) has become a public health problem, particularly in countries such as Guatemala with a high concentration of indigenous communities where the prevalence of stunting remains high. OBJECTIVE The aim was to describe and analyze the prevalence of DBM over time (1998-2008) in indigeno...

This Supplement of CSP is the result of an interdisciplinary international conference Race, Health, and Discrimination: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2015. The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the University of Michigan collaborated to bring together approximately 40 scholars from Brazil and the United States to examine the status of cu...

This essay briefly discusses neo-liberal approaches to the provision of social welfare, in synergy with reforms in public administration. It is the nuanced and dynamic interplay between these approaches that influences governance and business management activities of Indigenous community-controlled organisations within the Australian context. This paper draws on previous work identifying the ra...