Addressing global health disparities among Indigenous peoples

In countries around the world, Indigenous peoples face great social disadvantages and poor health compared with the general population.1,2 In The Lancet, Ian Anderson and colleagues3 have documented significant disparities among 28 Indigenous populations from 23 countries compared with benchmark pop...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Lancet (British edition) 2016-07, Vol.388 (10040), p.105-106
Hauptverfasser:	Kirmayer, Laurence J, Brass, Gregory
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Birth weight Child Nutrition Disorders - ethnology Fetal Macrosomia - ethnology Global health Health disparities Health Status Disparities Humans Indigenous peoples Infant mortality Infant Mortality - ethnology Infants Internal Medicine Life expectancy Life Expectancy - ethnology Maternal mortality Maternal Mortality - ethnology Native peoples Pediatric Obesity - ethnology Population Groups - ethnology Poverty - ethnology
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Zusammenfassung:	In countries around the world, Indigenous peoples face great social disadvantages and poor health compared with the general population.1,2 In The Lancet, Ian Anderson and colleagues3 have documented significant disparities among 28 Indigenous populations from 23 countries compared with benchmark populations for several variables, including life expectancy at birth, maternal and infant mortality, and frequency of low birthweight and high birthweight infants.
ISSN:	0140-6736 1474-547X
DOI:	10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30194-5