Mapping pandemic responses in urban Indigenous Australia: Reflections on systems thinking and pandemic preparedness

CONCLUSIONS: Systems thinking provides a useful tool in identifying the complexities associated with navigating health challenges, but further research is needed to develop frameworks that work in conjunction with Indigenous Australian methodologies.IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: Indigenous voices and communities must lie central to health responses/policies for Indigenous peoples. When systems thinking is done by or in collaboration with stakeholders it provides a visual language that can help design public health policy. What can be ascertained is that their effectiveness is predicated on systems thinking's integration with Indigenous methodologies that acknowledges Indigenous self-determination and challenges Eurocentric representations of health and Indigeneity.PMID:37806258 | DOI:10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100084

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - October 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bronwyn Fredericks Abraham Bradfield James Ward Sue McAvoy Shea Spierings Agnes Toth-Peter Troy Combo Source Type: research