Tribe: Yurok Tribe
View Source Document: Yurok Tribe: Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Water and Aquatic Resources
Year: 2014
Topic: Adaptation Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Cancer
Consider working to make changes to fire regimes (e.g., cultural burns) to increase access and availability of traditional foods.
Consider eating more traditional foods when available, particularly fish, as a high quality protein, low fat option with excellent health-protective...
Consider decreasing alcohol consumption to prevent cancer.
Consider seeing a health professional regularly when possible (to catch health problems early).
Consider increasing physical activity to maintain a healthy body weight.
If you are a smoker, consider quitting to eliminate an important risk factor for cancer.
Explore opportunities for “food sovereignty” to return to sustainable food harvesting and replace need for commodity foods.
Expand opportunities for physical activity.
Continue and enhance opportunities for fish sharing, including provision of fish for single or pregnant moms and elders.
Consider improving reporting of cancers through existing health systems to understand the depth of the problem and obtain funds to...
Work to increase healthcare funding to expand access for Tribal members.
Consider designing and implementing culturally grounded smoking, alcohol and other cancer risk-prevention education programs.
