Indigenous Health Inequities

The collaboration with Wuqu' Kawoq, an organisation with over 15 years of culturally appropriate health delivery, enhanced data quality and cultural validity. In 2017, 32.3% of First Nations people aged 15 and older living off-reserve reported a disability, compared with 21.8% of the non-Indigenous population. Departments with the highest proportions of Indigenous residents consistently show the lowest HPV vaccination coverage. HPV infection prevalence is higher among Indigenous women in Guatemala than non-Indigenous women, amplifying disparities in cervical cancer incidence and mortality. Indigenous peoples worldwide experience higher disability prevalence than non-Indigenous populations. Registered or Treaty Indian identity and band membership were associated with lower reported pain-related disability prevalence compared with those not reporting those identities. Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately affected by extreme poverty relative to their share of the global population. Community-level research in Cross Lake found that a majority of people with chronic spine symptoms reported that pain sometimes or often affected daily activities. First Nations people make up more th…