The health disadvantages of Indigenous peoples around the world have their roots in colonisation and discrimination and are related to a loss of autonomy over lands and culture. This history has profoundly affected social determinants of health, such as poverty and marginalisation, and contributed to higher rates of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Indigenous people, and life expectancies that are typically 5 years or more lower than in non-Indigenous populations. Despite persistent health inequities, Indigenous peoples are determining the path to healing their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The health disadvantages of Indigenous peoples around the world have their roots in colonisation and discrimination and are related to a loss of autonomy over lands and culture. This history has profoundly affected social determinants of health, such as poverty and marginalisation, and contributed to higher rates of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Indigenous people, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","migration-helper-automated":[],"migration-manual":[],"topic":[],"migration-helper-qa-sample-set":[],"class_list":["post-3478","journal_article","type-journal_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"citation":"Walker J, Lovett R, Kukutai T, Jones C, Henry D. Lancet<\/em>. 2017; 390(10107):2022-3. Epub 2017 Nov 2.","source_url":"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(17)32755-1\/fulltext","ices_scientist":[1124,1266],"site":[],"research_program":[],"news_release":[7617],"journal_article":[],"atlas":[],"research_report":[],"infographic":[],"video":[],"downloads":null,"links":null,"sitecore_item_id":"3A375B9D-A7E8-4C77-B2D5-64638344FABD","sitecore_item_name":"Indigenous-health-data-and-the-path-to-healing","sitecore_field_values":"{\n \"Title\": \"Indigenous health data and the path to healing\",\n \"Summary\": \"Outlines governance processes for use of routinely collected health data with Indigenous identifiers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.\",\n \"Citation\": \"Walker J, Lovett R, Kukutai T, Jones C, Henry D. Lancet<\/em>. 2017; 390(10107):2022-3. Epub 2017 Nov 2.\",\n \"Abstract\": \" The health disadvantages of Indigenous peoples around the world have their roots in colonisation and discrimination and are related to a loss of autonomy over lands and culture. This history has profoundly affected social determinants of health, such as poverty and marginalisation, and contributed to higher rates of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Indigenous people, and life expectancies that are typically 5 years or more lower than in non-Indigenous populations. Despite persistent health inequities, Indigenous peoples are determining the path to healing their communities.<\/p>n