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Improving Health Outcomes for Indigenous People


Global Plan of Action for Health of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Peoples' approach to health is a balance of spirituality, traditional medicine, biodiversity and the interconnectedness of all that exists. This ...

Why the Health of Indigenous People Impacts Us All

Promoting Indigenous health and reviving those strengths of culture that integrate the natural world with health can benefit all populations ...

Health | United Nations For Indigenous Peoples

Self-determination, collective rights, crucial to indigenous health. To address the root causes of indigenous peoples' health problems, there must be full ...

Using Intervention Research to Improve Health in Indigenous ...

Indigenous communities in the U.S. face significant health disparities. These health disparities, including lower life expectancy and a ...

Understanding Health Disparities in Indigenous Communities

Greater cultural concordance between health care clinicians and patients has a positive impact on health outcomes. To improve the ratio of Indigenous clinicians ...

Health and Health Care for Indigenous People | KFF

As the country celebrates Indigenous knowledge and cultures, it is key to recognize that Indigenous people face many socioeconomic and health ...

Interventions to improve health literacy among Aboriginal and Torres ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to experience poorer health outcomes than other population groups.

Centring Indigenous knowledge can improve access to health

... cultural humility and centring Indigenous knowledge will increase trust in health systems and improve health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples.

Historic resolution calls for action to improve the health of ...

By doing so, WHO aims to ensure that all peoples, including Indigenous Peoples, have access to comprehensive, culturally appropriate, and high- ...

How we support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

Health services · pregnancy and early childhood support to make sure kids get a good start · primary health care to prevent disease and reduce ...

Countries agree to prioritize initiatives to improve the health ... - PAHO

Under the new resolution, countries will develop, finance and implement national health plans for Indigenous peoples that ensure their equal ...

Visioning an Effective Health Encounter: Indigenous Healthcare ...

Discrimination within healthcare settings can have negative effects on Indigenous people, such as being denied proper treatment or avoidance of critical ...

Indigenous Healthcare and Revitalization | United Nations

Land-based healing methods including re-learning original languages, attending sweat lodges, gathering traditional medicines from the land, smudging, and ...

Improving Health Outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native ...

Research involving AI/AN people with disabilities has shown an important connection between their culture and their health. ... In fact, strong ...

Supporting Indigenous Families for Improved Health Outcomes

Are you self-educated about accurate cultural differences and how it impacts healthcare service delivery for different communities? Do you know ...

American Indian Health Disparities

NICOA's Commitment to Health Equity · Information and technical assistance for American Indian and Alaska Native communities to improve health care for Native ...

Improving the health of Indigenous people globally - The Lancet

Indigenous peoples generally face substantial disadvantages compared with non-Indigenous people. Their access to and use of health care is usually lower, their ...

Access to primary health care services for Indigenous peoples

Ensuring access to primary health care is widely accepted as key to improving health outcomes [1]. In the case of Indigenous populations ...

Improving Health Outcomes for Indigenous People

Closing the Health Gap: Improving Health Outcomes for Indigenous People. Submission to the Standing Committee of Finance. August, 2017. Canadian Indigenous ...

Supporting the Health and Well-Being of Indigenous Communities

Indigenous peoples in the United States experience many health disparities and barriers to accessing health care services.