Improving access to Indigenous medicine for patients in hospital-based settings: a challenge for health systems in northern Canada
In this commentary, we argue that Indigenous patients in the Northwest Territories (NWT) have a right to access traditional medicine and related practitioners as a part of the continuum of medical care. Indigenous people make up over half of the NWT population, spread over vast geographic areas with...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6493304 2023-05-15T16:16:15+02:00 Improving access to Indigenous medicine for patients in hospital-based settings: a challenge for health systems in northern Canada Redvers, Nicole Marianayagam, Justina Blondin, Be’sha 2019-02-11 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6493304/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30744519 https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1577093 en eng Taylor & Francis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6493304/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30744519 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1577093 © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY-NC Short Communication Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1577093 2019-05-12T00:19:12Z In this commentary, we argue that Indigenous patients in the Northwest Territories (NWT) have a right to access traditional medicine and related practitioners as a part of the continuum of medical care. Indigenous people make up over half of the NWT population, spread over vast geographic areas with representation from First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) people. Ensuring barrier-free access to traditional medicine and providers in a culturally respectful environment is a challenge that requires structural transformation in the territorial health system. The ongoing transmission of knowledge about Indigenous traditional medicine in Northern Canada and the collective survival of Northern peoples is a testament to the applicability of traditional medicines in a self-determined wellness system. Through a discussion of the barriers to policy development and implementation, this commentary aims to elevate Indigenous perspectives and offer recommendations for integrating traditional medicines into Northern health systems. Text First Nations inuit Northwest Territories PubMed Central (PMC) Canada Northwest Territories International Journal of Circumpolar Health 78 1 1577093 |
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In this commentary, we argue that Indigenous patients in the Northwest Territories (NWT) have a right to access traditional medicine and related practitioners as a part of the continuum of medical care. Indigenous people make up over half of the NWT population, spread over vast geographic areas with representation from First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) people. Ensuring barrier-free access to traditional medicine and providers in a culturally respectful environment is a challenge that requires structural transformation in the territorial health system. The ongoing transmission of knowledge about Indigenous traditional medicine in Northern Canada and the collective survival of Northern peoples is a testament to the applicability of traditional medicines in a self-determined wellness system. Through a discussion of the barriers to policy development and implementation, this commentary aims to elevate Indigenous perspectives and offer recommendations for integrating traditional medicines into Northern health systems. |
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