There is a large and growing body of evidence on the health benefits of engagement in
leisure activities (voluntary, enjoyable non-work activities, such as hobbies, arts …

Access to health care based on need rather than ability to pay was the founding principle of
the Canadian health-care system. Medicare was born in one province in 1947. It spread …

Background International studies of the health of Indigenous and tribal peoples provide
important public health insights. Reliable data are required for the development of policy …

The health of Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, like that of almost all
Indigenous peoples worldwide, is characterised by systematic inequities in health outcomes …

Type 2 diabetes is a significant and increasing burden in adolescents and young adults.
Clear strategies for research, prevention, and treatment of the disease in these vulnerable …

Although understanding the local epidemiology of gonorrhoea is critical for local efforts,
understanding the multinational epidemiology may support development of national and …

Purpose: This review aims to reveal how music and dance participation relates to key social
determinants of health, and acts as population wellbeing and health promotion and …

The food sovereignty movement initiated in 1996 by a transnational organization of
peasants, La Via Campesina, representing 148 organizations from 69 countries, became …

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease
distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities …

Many scholars assert that Indigenous peoples across the globe suffer a disproportionate
burden of mental illness. Research indicates that colonialism and its associated processes …