Billiot S.Mitchell F.M.2024-11-192024-11-1920192019-12-04Public Health. Vol.176, 2019, pp. 142-148.https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2018.08.011https://lowitja.intersearch.com.au/handle/1/543Objectives: Global environmental changes not only impact the physical environment but the health and well-being of people on earth. Emerging research demonstrates how Indigenous peoples' physical and behavioural health is disproportionately affected by changes to their ecosystems in combination with pre-existing social and economic inequities. This article introduces a conceptual model to enhance our understanding of environmental change and its impact on Indigenous behavioural health and well-being. Study design: Using an Indigenous theoretical lens, this article presents a review of existing theoretical frameworks applied to environmental changes and empirical studies with Indigenous populations. Method(s): The conceptual model joins elements from the indigenist stress-coping model from the field of social work with the exposure pathway model from the field of public health. Result(s): The interdisciplinary model joins elements from the indigenist stress-coping model with the exposure pathway model to highlight Indigenous-specific sensitivities and cultural buffers that are particular to the impacts of environmental change among Indigenous peoples. Conclusion(s): Implications for public health and social work policy, practice and research with Indigenous communities are discussed.Copyright © 2018 The Royal Society for Public HealthArticleEnvironmental health(Billiot) School of Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1010 West Nevada Street, Urbana, IL 61801, United States(Mitchell) School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N. Central Avenue, Suite 800, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0689, United States30583872 [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=30583872]