Indigenous Health and Well-Being in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nicholas D. Spence, Fatih Sekercioglu, Nicholas D. Spence, Fatih Sekercioglu

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032115436
• eBook ISBN: 9781000644203
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and assesses the policy responses taken by governments and Indigenous communities across the world.

Bringing together innovative research and policy insights from a range of disciplines, this book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples across the world, with coverage of North America, Central America, Africa, and Oceania. Further, it explores the actions taken by governments and Indigenous communities in addressing the challenges posed by this public health crisis. The book emphasises the social determinants of health and well-being, reflecting on issues such as self-governance, human rights law, housing, socioeconomic conditions, access to health care, culture, environmental deprivation, and resource extraction. Chapters also highlight the resilience and agency of Indigenous Peoples in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the legacy of colonialism, patterns of systemic discrimination, and social exclusion.

Providing concrete pathways for improving the conditions of Indigenous Peoples in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book is essential reading for researchers across indigenous studies, public health, and social policy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples’ right to health
• 2 Pandemic precedent: Indigenous demise in the wake of Columbus
• 3 COVID-19 among Indigenous populations in Mexico and the response of the health system
• 4 An Australian First Nations COVID-19 Prevention Strategy and the limits of a medicalised managerial discourse
• 5 Pandemic policy, First Nations, and the power of self-determination
• 6 Indigenous health systems and the management of infectious diseases: A study of the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic among the Igbo of southeast Nigeria
• 7 The coronavirus pandemic in Ìbàdàn, Nigeria: Existentialities, state responses, and outcomes
• 8 Clearing the fog for informed policy decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
• 9 Clinical, social and environmental risk factors: Their role in the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 in Indigenous populations
• 10 Threats, challenges, and adaptation: The experience of the subarctic Cree Peoples of western James Bay, Canada, during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic
• 11 Pandemic pipelines: How essential service declarations enabled extractive infrastructure development under the cover of COVID-19
• Index