Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 107, May 2025, 104485
The "Multigenerational Resilience Theory" highlights the cultural and intergenerational nature of resilience in indigenous communities, offering new strategies for addressing modern challenges.
Societal Impacts, 2025, 100114
This article outlines a theory of goodness, coupled with some of its practical implications for impact-making, governance and lives more generally. The theory proposes that goodness consists of positive feelings and whatever promotes them, such as the joy of a meaningful conversation or the satisfaction of eating food, for instance. Although it is a version of ethical hedonism, the theory is also called welfarism since it allocates a central role to affect and since affect is central to some prevalent measures of 'subjective wellbeing'.
Current Developments in Nutrition , 2025, 107439
This paper reviews and compares four leading healthy diet metrics: GDQS, GDR score, MDD-W, and Nova UPF score, for their accuracy, ease of use, and global applicability in monitoring dietary quality. The findings highlight that the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) offers the strongest predictive accuracy for nutrient adequacy using a simple, scalable method, while also emphasizing the need for further research on metrics assessing moderation and cross-country comparability.
JSAMS Plus, Volume 5, June 2025, 100100
Sudden cardiac death is more common and coronary heart disease and rheumatic heart disease are the most common causes in First Nations Australians in the Northern Territory of Australia under the age of 40 years. The authors contend that there is a need for First Nation Australians specific local guidelines for a comprehensive pre-participation Heart-Health assessment.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Volume 49, Issue 3, June 2025, 100239
The authors highlight how the Indigenous view of health has always understood the interconnects among people, animals and the environment, which is the foundation of what is now a western concept called “One Health”. They call for Indigenous understandings of the connection to be embedded into One Health approaches. They propose that future studies utilise local Indigenous seasonal calendars, which are often based on environmental cues, to help understand the seasonal effects of zoonoses.
iScience, Volume 28, Issue 5, 16 May 2025, 112353
This perspective highlights the challenges and opportunities of implementing people-centered multi-hazard early warning systems in the Global South, emphasizing the need for localized, inclusive approaches that address vulnerability and the complex interrelationships of hazards, to bridge the gap between global ambitions and operational realities.
iScience, Volume 28, Issue 5, 16 May 2025, 112358
This backstory highlights the importance of interdisciplinary and participatory approaches in advancing the One Health concept, using lessons from an international workshop in Lao PDR to address existing knowledge gaps and improve global health security strategies.
