Understanding Local Health and Wellbeing in Indigenous Dayak Communities

What is it about?

This chapter introduces how Indigenous Dayak communities in Borneo experience health and wellbeing in relation to their everyday lives, environment and local health systems. It explores why understanding local knowledge, values and experiences matters when designing health initiatives that respond to local communities and contexts.

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Photo by Maximus Beaumont on Unsplash

Why is it important?

This chapter offers a timely, locally grounded view of health and wellbeing by foregrounding Indigenous Dayak knowledge, lived experiences and place. It challenges one-size-fits-all approaches and shows why design for health needs to begin with local communities, contexts and ways of knowing.