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Week 12 Mind Map: Planetary Health & Indigenous Worldviews
We must prioritize intersectoral action that promotes the health of our planet in order to promote health for all of its inhabitants.
3.2 Shifting global governance from economic focus to planetary health focus
3.2.1 breaking free of neoliberal chains - promoting doughnut economics
3.2.2 moving beyond net-zero emissions targets - we can do more - pushing for negative emissions and holding corporations accountable
3.3 Fostering new connections and respecting existing connections between people and land
3.3.1 Shifting away from screen time toward more time with nature - especially for children - so much to be learned if we just look up and around us
3.3.2 recognizing land-based healing
3.1 Centering eco-systems and planetary health thinking in all policy discussion
3.1.1 Supporting decarbonization, biodiversity, sustainable diets and agriculture, etc. at all levels, together - can't just be sporadic, we need everyone all over the world to share the focus
3.1.2 Giving land and water resources legal status - if corporations have it, why shouldn't our planet?
The dawn of the anthropocene era has shown us that the ecological determinants of health are what truly underlie the social determinants of health, and we need to act accordingly.
5.2 Climate change doesn't just result in negative impacts for planetary health - it greatly impacts human health as well
5.2.1 we rely on natural systems for life - if we rely on them unsustainably, then we cannot sustain life - growing threat to human health across multiple domains
5.2.2 heat waves, fires, disease, diminished food production, lost work capacity in vulnerable groups - climate change is impacting health from all angles
5.3 Major shift required in health promotion thinking and values to address declining planetary health
5.3.1 Must recognize ecological determinants as the ultimate determinants of health - people need to start learning this from a young age, before it's too late (e.g., not just in post-secondary health science disciplines - everyone)
5.3.2 Including measures of eco-system health alongside other indicators of human health - there is a direct link here that can't continue to be overlooked
5.1 The magnitude of human impact on climate highlights the scale of our ecological blindness up to this point
5.1.2 Complete disregard for climate at local, national and global level has put us in the grave situation that we are trying to address today
5.1.1 Massive focus on social and economic determinants of health with little regard for the major impact of ecological determinants up to this point - if planet isn't healthy, neither are we
To truly promote the health of all people, transformative action is required from the top-down, starting with IUPHE leadership.
4.2 Elevating the focus of health promotion from a population-level approach to a planetary-level approach
4.2.1 Developing new health promotion competencies that reflect this new, broader focus - maybe MPH programs can do this too?
4.2.2 Drawing on Indigenous knowledge regarding sustainable living - they lived sustainably on this planet for millennia before colonization
4.3 Collaborating with others at local, national and global levels to work proactively and intersectorally to integrate a planetary health focus in all health promotion practice
4.3.1 Including diverse community members in discussions regarding mitigation of climate change
4.3.2 Emphasizing the unifying-effect that health promotion can have at both a national and global level - we all want the same thing
4.1 Decolonizing IUPHE governance while working closely with Indigenous groups
4.1.1 Equitable representation of the entire world, especially underrepresented populations such as the Global South and Indigenous groups
4.1.2 Integrating Indigenous ways of knowing, worldview into governance structure - moving past the traditional western bureaucratic approach
To promote the health of
all
people, we must dismantle colonial structures that reinforce discrimination and inequity.
1.2 Need to decolonize spaces, systems and structures while prioritizing listening.
1.2.1 Changing power dynamics - does not always need to be under colonial governance structures
1.2.2 Indigenous community knowledge respected as evidence rather than constant reliance on western ways of knowing
1.3 Need to encourage governance approaches that centre traditional Indigenous knowledge and wisdom.
1.3.1 Recognizing ceremony, non-coloniser language, and straying away from Western vertical hierarchies, more toward horizontal
1.3.2 highlighting Indigenous knowledge in policy discussions
1.1 Need to respect the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples, as well as their traditions.
1.1.1 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a starting point, but not an end point - we can do more
1.1.2 Recognizing determinants of health that often go overlooked - e.g., spirituality, culture, knowledge, identity
Relationships must be strengthened at all levels to foster peaceful and inclusive spaces for all, and to enact structural change.
2.2 A large shift is required in the realm of research and academia to progress toward true decolonization
2.2.1 Shifting health promotion curriculum toward decolonization and planetary health lens - this will pay dividends in future as next generations of practitioners enter the workforce having been trained in this way of thinking
2.2.2 Integrating traditional Indigenous knowledge and worldview into research methodology / discussions - going beyond two-eyed seeing
2.3 Health systems leaders, local governments and policymakers need to be on board
2.3.1 Integrating culturally safe/ trauma-informed approaches at all levels of healthcare system - not just cultural competency training, but engraining competency into the fabric of the system
2.3.2 Prioritizing equitable policy that uplifts the most vulnerable/overlooked groups, while also holding corporations accountable for their role in upholding linear, extractive systems
2.1 Strengthening and empowering communities should be a key focus of health promotion initiatives
2.1.2 Targeted investments to celebrate all cultures, with special attention toward uplifting communities that resist linear, extractive systems
2.1.1 Fostering relationships between grassroots community members/organizations and policymakers to maximize community participation/engagement and remove barriers to action