Introduction & Overview

The purpose of this training is to offer tribal and urban Indian public health departments an approach to develop and apply a health framework that is tailored to issues, contexts, and culture(s) represented in their community.

This training contains five modules designed to offer tribal and urban Indian public health practitioners with content and practice to map out their own Indigenous Social Determinants of Health framework. The modules use interactive and engaging activities and vignettes to develop an understanding of ISDOH at the individual, family, and community levels to consider connections to health and wellbeing.

This training has five overall objectives:

• Describe Indigenous conceptions of healing, health, and wellness and how they relate to Indigenous Social Determinants of Health (ISDOH).  
• Describe the WHO / CDC Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) frameworks and domains, and applications within Indigenous populations.  
• Identify and define ISDOH that are distinct from those identified within other SDOH frameworks.  
• Describe structural and systemic determinants of health specific to Indigenous communities.   
• Provide public health tools and exercises to identify and describe ISDOH (i.e., root cause analysis, talk-story, visual), as well as to plan for measurement and development of health indicators that align with Indigenous community health goals.