Volume 2 Number 2, 2025, special issue, indigenous communities health and wellbeing

The Journal of Community Systems for Health presents a Special Issue on Indigenous Communities, Health, and Wellbeing.
This collection explores the diverse challenges Indigenous peoples face across continents. The articles highlight lived experiences of health and wellbeing, viewed through the lens of social determinants and grounded in community perspectives.

Published: 2025-10-21

Editorial

Indigenous health across contexts: Lived realities, structural conditions, and community-led pathways forward

Jon Petter Stoor
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Original research

Examining knowledge, interests, and preferences of Cherokee adults for improved program design and implementation

Melissa E. Lewis, Ivy Blackmore, Brandi N. Armstrong, Jamie B. Smith, Jack D. Baker, Rose Stremlau, Julie Reed, ᏄᎦᏓᏯ Sarah Holcomb, Tonya S. Wapskineh, ᎤᏓᏩᏗᏍᎬ Howard Paden
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Adapting an Indigenous child health measure for Inuit children in Iqaluit, Nunavut

Nancy L Young, Victoria Madsen, Mylène Michaud, Atiqa F Pirwani
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Consumption of traditional food and self-perceived health among elderly Sámi in Sweden

Lena Maria Nilsson, Anit Kujur, Monalisha Sahu, Vidya Sagar, Dhananjay Singh , Dewesh Kumar, Ildikó Asztalos Morell
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Mortality patterns in a tribal population in the Dangs district of Gujarat, India: A verbal autopsy-based study

Simran Jha, Tapasvi Puwar , Bhavna Puwar , Shyamsundar Raithatha
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Mamás de la Frontera: Empowering perspectives of Indigenous community health workers along the Putumayo River in the Peruvian Amazon

Rita Orihuela-Anaya, Meenakshi Richardson, Gladys Gamarra, Angela Alva, Hernán Lauracio Ticona, Carlos Arosquipa Rodriguez, Magaly M. Blas
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Peqqissuserput: A theoretical research model starting from a place of strengths to support Kalaallit Inuit communities to thrive

Ingelise Olesen, Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen
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Rongoā Māori and Western medicine: Advocating for collaborative healthcare in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Glenis Mark, Amohia Boulton, Gill Potaka-Osborne
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Sugar-sweetened beverages consumption among the Sámi in Sweden: prevalence and socioeconomic risk factors

Thein Myint Aung, Jon Petter Stoor, Lena Maria Nilsson , Miguel San Sebastián
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Disparities in depression at the intersect of Indigenous status and gender in Sweden: a cross-sectional study

Rosaline Bezerra Aguiar, Miguel San Sebastián, Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez, Jon Petter Stoor
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Review articles

Forest neighbourhoods and healthcare access for Adivasi communities in India: A critical interpretive synthesis

Anika Juneja, NS Prashanth , Surekha Garimella, Anna-Karin Hurtig
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Inuit, urban and unhoused: a scoping review of social worlds

Nmesoma Nweze, Darah Olaogun, Dennis C Wendt
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Protocol articles

Reminiscing together – Study design of a community based participatory dementia care intervention in two Inuit communities in Greenland

Kamilla Nørtoft, Sidse Carroll
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Lessons and experiences

Lessons and experiences in co-designing an Indigenous leadership, governance, and decision-making model: Te Remu Huia

Luke Enoka, Amohia Boulton, Utiku Potaka
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