Healthy country, healthy people

In a study called "Healthy People, Healthy Country," researchers looked at the connections between indigenous populations of people and ancestral lands or the physical areas in which they lived -- and the health of both seems to go hand in hand. Although in some areas both the people and the land were very healthy, in others neither were thriving at all. The trick for these populations seems to be finding a balance between modern social benefits and health care, and traditional living with cultural history and roots.

The basic findings of the study was that increasing natural and cultural resource management activities in target areas (more remote or isolated groups) could significantly improve overall the health of both the people and the landscapes. And this, obviously, would benefit everybody.