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Tackling the Burden of Osteoarthritis as a Health Care Opportunity in Indigenous Communities—A Call to Action

Osteoarthritis is a highly prevalent and disabling disease, causing a significant individual and socioeconomic burden worldwide. Until now, there has been a dearth of research exploring the impact of osteoarthritis in global Indigenous communities. Osteoarthritis has a similar risk factor profile to...

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Autores principales: O’Brien, Penny, Bunzli, Samantha, Lin, Ivan, Gunatillake, Tilini, Bessarab, Dawn, Coffin, Juli, Garvey, Gail, Dowsey, Michelle, Choong, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7463980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32726980
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082393
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author O’Brien, Penny
Bunzli, Samantha
Lin, Ivan
Gunatillake, Tilini
Bessarab, Dawn
Coffin, Juli
Garvey, Gail
Dowsey, Michelle
Choong, Peter
author_facet O’Brien, Penny
Bunzli, Samantha
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description Osteoarthritis is a highly prevalent and disabling disease, causing a significant individual and socioeconomic burden worldwide. Until now, there has been a dearth of research exploring the impact of osteoarthritis in global Indigenous communities. Osteoarthritis has a similar risk factor profile to many chronic diseases that disproportionately affect Indigenous peoples. In this editorial, we argue that osteoarthritis and associated mobility restrictions play a central role in the chronic disease profile of Indigenous peoples. We present a call to action for clinicians and health care providers, researchers and policymakers to begin to recognise the interrelated nature of osteoarthritis and chronic disease. We have an opportunity to change the way we do business, to improve access to culturally secure osteoarthritis care and the health and wellbeing of Indigenous communities.
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spelling pubmed-74639802020-09-04 Tackling the Burden of Osteoarthritis as a Health Care Opportunity in Indigenous Communities—A Call to Action O’Brien, Penny Bunzli, Samantha Lin, Ivan Gunatillake, Tilini Bessarab, Dawn Coffin, Juli Garvey, Gail Dowsey, Michelle Choong, Peter J Clin Med Editorial Osteoarthritis is a highly prevalent and disabling disease, causing a significant individual and socioeconomic burden worldwide. Until now, there has been a dearth of research exploring the impact of osteoarthritis in global Indigenous communities. Osteoarthritis has a similar risk factor profile to many chronic diseases that disproportionately affect Indigenous peoples. In this editorial, we argue that osteoarthritis and associated mobility restrictions play a central role in the chronic disease profile of Indigenous peoples. We present a call to action for clinicians and health care providers, researchers and policymakers to begin to recognise the interrelated nature of osteoarthritis and chronic disease. We have an opportunity to change the way we do business, to improve access to culturally secure osteoarthritis care and the health and wellbeing of Indigenous communities. MDPI 2020-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7463980/ /pubmed/32726980 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082393 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tackling the Burden of Osteoarthritis as a Health Care Opportunity in Indigenous Communities—A Call to Action
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32726980
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082393
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