Cancer mortality among indigenous peoples is increasing, but these populations commonly under use cancer-screening services. This systematic review explores knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours towards cancer screening among indigenous peoples worldwide. Searches of major bibliographic databases identified primary studies published in English up to March, 2014; of 33 eligible studies, three wer...

Background: Information on strategies adopted by Indigenous peoples against COVID-19 is scarce, and history shows that in the Amazon region may be particularly affected pandemic.
 Method: The studies were identified well-known international journals found two electronic databases: Scopus Embase. data cross-checked with information from main newspapers.
 Results: Mental disorders affec...

Community-based participatory research with traditional and indigenous communities of the Americas: Historical context and future directions. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an investigative orientation that is gaining prominence in the fields of population and public health and among underserved community groups, such as traditional and indigenous peoples of the Americas. In t...

Abstract Indigenous peoples’ success in preserving their natural environment has been tested and verified throughout generations achieved without any prohibition against the community to take advantage of as a source livelihood. Supporting indigenous peoples control, sustainably manage, derive benefits from forests can go long way solving problems climate change, loss biodiversity culture, food...

peoples. Values, lifestyles, standards of living and culture, so important to clinical understandings, lie midway. Health workers are more familiar with short and mid-distance factors, but improving the health of indigenous peoples requires a broad approach covering a wide spectrum of interventions. The Declaration of Health and Survival recommends several strategies including capacity building...

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Researchers, when engaging with Māori communities, are in a process of relationship building and this process can be guided by the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, partnership, participation and protection. The main concerns for many indigenous peoples in research revolve around respect for their indigenous rights, control over research processes and reciprocity within research relationshi...

Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indigenous people prefer to work on a small scale. This cultural factor developed during the colonial period and remains a part of current indigenous culture. To test the hypothesis, I elaborate...

In 2001 a new Land Law was adopted in Cambodia. It was significant because – for the first time – it recognised a new legal category of people, ‘Indigenous Peoples’ or chuncheat daoem pheak tech in Khmer, and it also introduced the legal concept of communal land rights to Cambodia. Indigenous Peoples are not mentioned in the 1993 constitution of Cambodia or any legislation pre-dating the 2001 L...

Long ago, before recorded history, humans looked to the sky. They followed the movements of the sun, the phases of the moon, and the changes in the stars. They sought to track time, plan for rites, and mark when to gather and hunt. Often, they simply stared upward and told stories. Modern-day astronomers have inherited this ancient tradition, but their endeavors have sometimes clashed with indi...