Making Gains in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health

• Main Author: Brascoupé, Simon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health 2013
• Subjects: Canada; Wilkins; First Nations; inuit; inuits; Premières Nations
• Online Access: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijih/article/view/29015

Over time, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people have made gains in health but continue tobear a disproportionate burden of death and disease. The infant mortality rate for Status FirstNations and Inuit has dropped over the last decades, but is nevertheless about twice the rateof the general popula...