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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

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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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