First Nation, Inuit, and Metis Health: Considerations for Canadian Health Leaders in the Wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report

From the Authors' article, Page 117,120:

"First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples living in Canada face profound health disparities relative to non-Indigenous Canadians on almost every measure of health and well-being. Advancing health opportunities for Indigenous peoples require responses at all levels of healthcare delivery and policy. Therefore, it is critical for health leaders and providers within Canada’s healthcare institutions, systems, and settings to understand and address the determinants of health unique to Indigenous peoples, including the legacy of colonialism and both long-standing and present-day racism. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada provides a starting point from which positive responses to injustices can be advanced." (117).

"The interplay of social, political, historical, cultural, environmental, geographic, and economic factors that directly and indirectly shape Indigenous health needs to be understood as a “culmination of cultural wounds inflicted upon whole communities and whole ways of life.”[42] Achieving health equity for Indigenous peoples in Canada requires responses and reconciliation at all levels of healthcare delivery and policy, as well as social change to address broader determinants that negatively impact health." (120).