Conceptualising the relationships between food sovereignty, food security, and oral health among global Indigenous Communities: a scoping review

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dc.contributor.authorPoirier, B.
dc.contributor.authorSoares, G.
dc.contributor.authorNeufeld, H.T.
dc.contributor.authorHedges, J.
dc.contributor.authorSethi, S.
dc.contributor.authorJamieson, L.
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractObjective: Invasive colonial influences and continuing neoliberal policies have a detrimental impact on Land, health, food and culture for Indigenous Communities. Food security and sovereignty have significant impacts on Indigenous well-being and, specifically, oral health. Aspects relating to food security, such as availability of nutritious foods, are a common risk factor of oral diseases. This scoping review aimed to collate existing evidence regarding the relationship between food sovereignty and/or food security and oral health for Indigenous Communities, globally. Design: Four databases weresearchedusingkeywordsrelatedto‘Foodsecurity’or ‘Food sovereignty,’ ‘Indigenous Peoples’ and ‘Oral health.’ Duplicates were removed, and two independent reviewers screened the titles and abstracts to identify articles for full-text review. Extracted data were summarised narratively, presenting a conceptual model which illustrates the findings and relationships between food security and/or food sovereignty and oral health. Results: The search identified 369 articles, with forty-one suitable for full-text review and a final nine that met inclusion criteria. The impact of food security and food sovereignty on oral health was discussed across different populations and sample sizes, ranging from eighteen Kichwa families in Brazil to 533 First Nations and Metis households in Canada. Pathways of influence between food sovereignty and/or food security are explored clinically, quantitatively and qualitatively across oral health outcomes, including early childhood caries, dental caries and oral health-related quality of life for Indigenous Communities. Conclusions: Innovative strategies underpinned by concepts of Indigenous food sovereigntyareneededtopromoteoralhealthequityforIndigenousCommunities. The nexus between oral health and Indigenous food sovereignty remains largely unexplored, but has immense potential for empowering Indigenous rights to self determination of health that honour Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityBrianna Faye Poirier, Gustavo Soares, Hannah Tait Neufeld, Joanne Hedges, Sneha Sethi and Lisa Jamieson
dc.identifier.citationPublic Health Nutrition, 2024; 27(1):e147-1-e147-11
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/s1368980024001198
dc.identifier.issn1368-9800
dc.identifier.issn1475-2727
dc.identifier.orcidPoirier, B. [0000-0002-8257-6104]
dc.identifier.orcidSoares, G. [0000-0001-6122-4399]
dc.identifier.orcidHedges, J. [0000-0002-2413-5992]
dc.identifier.orcidSethi, S. [0000-0002-3571-5298]
dc.identifier.orcidJamieson, L. [0000-0001-9839-9280]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/143021
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.rights©The Author(s),2024.Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Nutrition Society. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the same Creative Commons licence is used to distribute the re-used or adapted article and the original article is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained prior to any commercial use.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980024001198
dc.subjectfood sovereignty; food security; oral health; health equity; Indigenous peoples; community health
dc.titleConceptualising the relationships between food sovereignty, food security, and oral health among global Indigenous Communities: a scoping review
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished online

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