Despite decades of policy interventions, the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is declining against defined targets. And yet, health and wellbeing continue to be measured against deficit-focused “gaps” between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians in health research and policy.
Our new research, published in The Lancet challenges these approaches with Aboriginal cultural ways of knowing, being and doing. We do so by exploring the impact of “cultural camps” on Aboriginal people’s health and wellbeing.
Our study shows that when Aboriginal people are facilitated by cultural knowledge holders to practise culture on Country, they feel a positive impact.
