One of these, an IHS initiative [ 22], involved the transfer of funds to Indigenous health organisations or tribal groups, whilst NZ Care Plus [ 26] financed local primary care providers to employ four practice nurses and provide all clients with a wellness plan and free health consultations [ 27].
In this article, we share strength- and desire-based narratives to explore how reservations can serve as spaces of wellness for Indigenous youth, despite ongoing settler colonial harm.
Accordingly, further investigation is needed to understand age, ethnicity, and place-related income status and its implications for health and wellness among Indigenous peoples.
These complexities have hamstrung the necessary focus on and measurement of the significant impact of psychological factors on the experience of health and wellness within Australian Indigenous communities.
Taken together, these results suggest that incorporating cultural teachings, values, and traditional healing within primary health care and therapeutic health services may be especially beneficial in supporting wellness among young Indigenous people who use drugs.
This article addresses an apparent paradox between academic and policy depictions of American Indian reservations as "broken" and "unhealthy" places, and Indigenous youth perceptions of reservations as spaces of "health" and "wellness".
This approach is well suited to Aboriginal health research because it aligns with Indigenous holistic values and considers physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of healing and wellness together for the total well-being of an individual[ 23].
WPHC was a population based wellness screening program in 19 rural and remote Indigenous communities across three health districts during 1998 2000.
Those from the more remote areas are more likely to be speakers of an Indigenous language as their first language and to hold views of illness and wellness that are strongly influenced by traditional practices.
"We have an intensifying desire for authenticity and immersion in treatments, food, design and experiences indigenous to the spa's unique place and culture," said Susie Ellis, the president of the industry association SpaFinder Wellness.
