Exploring Cultural Determinants of Health and Wellbeing - Lowitja Institute Roundtable

Ngaire Brown's powerpoint Exploring Cultural Determinants of Health and Wellbeing Lowitja Institute Roundtable November 2014 Prof Ngi Brown Overview  Privileging Indigenous knowledge  Protecting Indigenous intellectual property and Traditional Knowledge  Preserving and promoting cultural integrity  Propose that a cultural determinants approach to wellbeing is a relevant and effective way to improv. [...] It includes not only the arts and letters, but also modes of life, the fundamental rights of the human being, value systems, traditions and beliefs;   Cultural policies aim to protect, stimulate and enrich each people's identity and cultural heritage, and establish absolute respect for and appreciation of cultural minorities and the other cultures of the world. [...] Cultural Determinants of Health The cultural determinants of health originate from and promote a strength based perspective, acknowledging that stronger connections to culture and country build stronger individual and collective identities, a sense of self-esteem, resilience, and improved outcomes across the other determinants of health including education, economic stability and community safety. [...] Cultural Determinants Human Rights Domain Self Determination UDHR; UNDRIP HR, law and justice, social inclusion Freedom from discrimination ICERD; ICESCR Politics, service delivery, social policy, law and justice Individual and Collective Rights UNDRIP; ICCPR Law and justice, employment, economics, social policy Freedom from assimilation and ILO Convention (No. [...] 169) on Law and justice, service delivery, destruction of culture Indigenous and Tribal Peoples; social policy, politics, education ICCPR Protection from removal/ CRC; ICERD; UNDRIP Law and justice, service delivery relocation Connection to, custodianship ILO Convention; ICESCR; Native Title and land rights, and utilisation of country and Convention on Biological environment traditional lands Dive.