Apr 02 2025
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Injury Prevention is accepting submissions for a topic collection on Indigenous Populations and Injury Prevention. Please see more information below and share with anyone who may be interested. The submission deadline is June 3, 2025.
Indigenous Populations and Injury Prevention
Indigenous populations experience health disparities, with higher rates of illness, injury and lower life expectancy due to disadvantages and injustices. Urgent action requires further research into injury risk, prevention, management considering unique cultural factors.
This Topic Collection seeks contributions to progress injury prevention among indigenous communities around the world.
We encourage research that provides insight into the following areas of interest:
- Implementation of injury prevention within the social and cultural contexts existing within indigenous communities
- The impact of historical and current marginalization and discrimination affects the prevention, identification, and management of injury within indigenous populations
- Examinations of injury prevention efforts that focus on: implementation science, knowledge translation, and/or community-based participatory research.
- Applications of injury prevention theoretical frameworks that consider behavioural, interpersonal, organizational, cultural, and policy-driven factors within indigenous populations.
We aim to highlight the diversity within the Indigenous populations. This includes, but is not limited to:
- First Nations, Inuit, and Métis individuals
- American Indians and Alaska Natives
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia
- Pacific Islander indigenous peoples, including but not limited to Māori, Native Hawaiians, American Samoans, and Chamorros
- Latin American/Caribbean indigenous peoples
- Indigenous peoples of Europe and Asia, including but not limited to Saamis and Nenets
- Indigenous peoples of Africa, including but not limited to the San
For more information and submission: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/pages/topic-collection-indigenous-populations-and-injury-prevention