What is Indigenous cultural health and wellbeing? A narrative review.

ABSTRACT: Indigenous cultural health is an emerging field of research and reflects the unique connections Indigenous peoples have with their Country, culture, and knowledge systems. This narrative review explores the concept of cultural health focusing on the interplay between culture, health, and wellbeing within settler colonial contexts. The review is mostly focused on Australian research, despite its international scope. A narrative review methodology was employed, search terms were compiled, and a title and abstract search was executed across two databases (Scopus, PubMed), confined to English language papers, with a focus on Australia. Three key themes were identified: Country; culture, and Indigenous knowledges. Country is vital to health. Culture practices offer frameworks for healing nurtur

SUBMITTER: Biles BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11632815 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature