Christopher Burgess|Fay Johnston|David M. J. S. Bowman|Peter Whitehead
Healthy Country: Healthy People? Exploring the health benefits of Indigenous natural resource management
Flinders University|Centre for Remote Health|Charles Darwin University|Charles Darwin University
decades healthrelated research produced large body knowledge describing alarming rates morbidity mortality socialcultural disruption among indigenous australians failed deliver sustainable interventions arrest deepening spiral illhealth paper explores potential indigenous natural resource management nrm activities promote preserve indigenous health remote areas northern australiaa literature review health social science ecology peerreviewed journals secondary literatureeffective interventions indigenous health require transdisciplinary holistic approaches explicitly incorporate indigenous health beliefs engage social cultural drivers health aboriginal peoples maintain strong belief continued association caring ancestral lands key determinant health individual engagement country provides opportunities physical activity improved diet well boosting individual autonomy selfesteem internationally culturally congruent health promotion activities successful programs targeting substance abuse chronic diseases nrm fundamental maintenance biodiversity northern australia increased support indigenous involvement land sea nrm programs would also deliver concrete social benefits communities including opportunities sustainable culturally apt regional employment applied education economic development nrm may also reinvigorate societalcultural constructs increasing collective esteem social cohesion