Reports

Aboriginal Environment Health Issues: Researchers' and Decision-Makers' Perceptions of Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Processes
Environmental health policies are often the result of highly political processes, with varied impacts on communities, regions and interests. This newly released, NCCAH-supported report by a team of scholars sheds light on Canadian Aboriginal environmental health processes and makes recommendations to support improved sharing of information and knowledge. The report highlights the need to incorporate Traditional Knowledge in decision-making processes, and finds that relationships among researchers, communities and decision-makers must be based on trust, respect, empowerment and equity

Ecohealth and Aboriginal Health: A Review of Common Ground
The health and well-being of Aboriginal communities is closely linked to a connection with the land. Margot Parkes, Canada Research Chair in Health, Ecosystems and Society at the University of Northern BC, identifies potential common ground between the emerging fields of ecohealth and holistic approaches to Aboriginal health. She highlights a new generation of research and practice bridging the “artificial divides” between environmental and social approaches to health, and suggests that building on the strengths of both approaches is “fertile ground that could help foster a future for Aboriginal communities where ecosystems, equity, health and culture can flourish.”