Develop a comprehensive assessment of community health risks, including assessment of Indigenous health indicators. Understanding the risks of climate change to human health and prioritizing actions to reduce these risks requires a comprehensive assessment of current and potential future community health risks on the Reservation. Community health assessments typically include local health data, local environmental data, and community concerns. The Swinomish Indian Tribe has recently developed a model for integrating Indigenous health indicators, which they identify as community connection, natural resources security, cultural use, education, self determination, and well-being (Donatuto et al. 2014; Swinomish 2010), into community health assessments. The intent of this approach is to broaden the scope of a standard assessment, which is usually focused on “individual, physiological health,” to include aspects of “community-scale, social, cultural, and mental health” that are also important to individual and tribal wellbeing (Donatuto et al. 2014).
Tribe: Lummi Indian Nation
View Source Document: Lummi Nation Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Plan: 2016-2026
Year: 2016
Topic:
Improve community health.
(view all topics in the plan)
Region: Northwest
