Background Books
Health: A Political Choice – Advancing Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Well-Being
Edited by Ilona Kickbusch and John Kirton, with Catherine Chamberlain
Published by GT Media, 2024
Free downloadable electronic version available here
See also the Global Governance Project
Welcome messages
- Spearheading global change for Indigenous health
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general, World Health Organization
- Indigenous peoples' rights and well-being
- Axel R Pries, president, World Health Summit
- Longer, happier, healthier lives
- Saia Ma'u Piukala, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific
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Editors' introductions
- The global governance of Indigenous peoples' health
- Ilona Kickbusch, founding director, Global Health Centre, Geneva, and John Kirton, director, Global Governance Program
- Time to listen
- Catherine Chamberlain, head, Indigenous Health Equity Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and Karen Adams, director, Gukwonderuk, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
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The Indigenous health agenda
- Better mental health outcomes through blended knowledge systems
- Helen Milroy, professor,
Perth Children's Hospital and University of Western Australia
- Untangling the health crisis and violence
- Marcia Langton AO, associate provost, University of Melbourne, and Kristen Smith, Onemda Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing, University of Melbourne
- Decolonising public health
- Interview with Emma Rawson-Te Patu, president-elect, World Federation of Public Health Associations
- Destigmatising mental health
- Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada
- G20 and G7 convergence key for a new global health order
- Hatice Beton, executive director, G20 and G7 Health and Development Partnership
- How health trends and decisions are affecting Inuit in Greenland
- Naja Carina Steenholdt and Ivalu Katajavaara Seidler, Centre for Public Health
in Greenland, University of Southern Denmark
- Helping people to breathe easy
- Raglan Maddox, professor, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, Australian National University
- When health rests on rights
- Christina Henriksen, former president, Saami Council
- Meaningful Indigenous representation across the globe: a call
to action
- Geoffrey Roth, vice-chair and expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- The health of Indigenous peoples
- The resolution adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2023
- Country Statement by Brazil at the World Health Assembly
- Statement delivered by Ricardo Weibe Nascimento Costa, Brazil's vice-minister for the health of Indigenous peoples
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Excerpts from the 2007 declaration that refer to Indigenous health and well-being
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