First Nations Holistic Policy and Planning Model

Two determinants from the model — legal and political equity, and environmental stewardship — could not be meaningfully operationalised using available survey variables. The First Nations Holistic Policy and Planning Model is a First Nations-specific framework developed by the Assembly of First Nations that places community at its centre with 15 determinants of health within a medicine wheel framework. An Indigenous Advisory Committee of six individuals contributed to framework selection, variable selection, interpretation, statistical modelling, and knowledge translation throughout the study. The study incorporated the principle of Two-Eyed Seeing, introduced by Elder Albert Marshall, which integrates Indigenous and Western ways of knowing.