How Indigenous Communities Are Adapting To Climate Change: Insights From The Climate-Ready Tribes Initiative

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• Alternative Title:
  Health Aff (Millwood)
• Personal Author:
  Schramm, Paul J. ; Al Janabi, Angelica L. ; Campbell, Larry W. ; Donatuto, Jamie L. ; Gaughen, Shasta C.
• Description:
  Climate change directly threatens human health, with substantial impacts on Indigenous peoples, who are uniquely vulnerable as climate-related events affect their practices, lifeways, self-determination, and physical and cultural health. At the same time, Indigenous communities are leading the way in innovative health-related climate change adaptation work, using traditional knowledges and novel approaches. In 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Indian Health Board created the Climate-Ready Tribes Initiative to support these efforts. The initiative has funded tribes, shared information nationally, and supported a learning cohort, resulting in pioneering work to protect health from climate hazards. We describe how two tribes-the Pala Band of Mission Indians and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community-implemented their Climate-Ready Tribes Initiative projects, and we provide recommendations for making climate and health policy more effective for tribes. Lessons learned from the Climate-Ready Tribes Initiative can inform climate and health policy and practice nationwide.
• Subjects:
  Climate Change Health Policy Humans Indians, North American
• Source:
  Health Aff (Millwood). 39(12):2153-2159
• Pubmed ID:
  33284701
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8931667
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  39
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4d38434dc34c6fe65f94f24079066a88882cb00ac646491071b6e4ba8da2266e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/115509/cdc_115509_DS1.pdf
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