The Enduring Plague: How Tuberculosis in Canadian Indigenous Communities is Emblematic of a Greater Failure in Healthcare Equality

Despite global strides made in prevention and treatment, tuberculosis (TB) remains an acute problem for Indigenous people in Canada. TB affects Indigenous communities at significantly higher rates than the general Canadian population, for whom it is a disease of the past. This paper suggests how col...

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Autor principal: Hick, Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Atlantis Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31241864
http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/jegh.k.190314.002
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spelling pubmed-73107532020-07-28 The Enduring Plague: How Tuberculosis in Canadian Indigenous Communities is Emblematic of a Greater Failure in Healthcare Equality Hick, Sarah J Epidemiol Glob Health Editorial Despite global strides made in prevention and treatment, tuberculosis (TB) remains an acute problem for Indigenous people in Canada. TB affects Indigenous communities at significantly higher rates than the general Canadian population, for whom it is a disease of the past. This paper suggests how colonialism and its history of violence have shaped the face of TB in Canada, and thus how TB is a telling point of analysis for considering the lack of equity and equality in healthcare delivery in Canada. Atlantis Press 2019-06 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7310753/ /pubmed/31241864 http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/jegh.k.190314.002 Text en © 2019 Atlantis Press International B.V. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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