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How Indigenous Communities Are Adapting to Climate Change: Insights from the Climate-Ready Tribes Initiative

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  • Alternative Title:
    Health Aff (Millwood)
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  • 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.
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  • 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/
  • Place as Subject:
    United States
  • Volume:
    39
  • Issue:
    12
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    urn:sha-512:8ef60323b84203a9c44553815cb760e3e9364c95ea107e5f11f1c5a7eb9db7125d2324fe74f073a3ec0f97fe73367451f4dead1035c068cdebbaa8953d9a5480
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