Challenges in health equity for Indigenous peoples in Canada

The Canadian health care system, like the country itself, is a complex existence. As the two papers on Canada in the Lancet series show, the country's healthcare department consists of multiple people, places, and frequently overlapping and sometimes conflicting policies. - Jurisdiction, priority, examples and practices. These complexities are rooted in the fairly young colonial history of Canada, and to the country consisting of the majority of settlers, new immigrants and their descendants, and indigenous peoples with indigenous, Inuit and Metis increasing Connected. Resurrection, political insight, and institution. Our response to these series of papers is in this context. Our work is based on scholars and researchers in the field of public health. We personally are a grandmother, a daughter of a recent immigrant, a descendant of an early immigrant, and a young family with a non-Canadian partner. Our view represents only a small portion of the different Canadian population, and the complexity of medical users.

It is difficult to understand the present attitudes of indigenous peoples and non indigenous people unless they understand the history of the interaction between European and Canadian in Canadian colonies. Here we outline the four aspects of the interaction between indigenous peoples and non-native families, which shape the current health status of Canadian indigenous peoples. Land, language, customs, and children. Indigenous peoples tell stories by writing or elder. The other voice is the voice of the government and the press.

The vast majority of Canadians have very little direct experience in private life and indigenous communities. Most Canadians do not know very little about the reality of people's lives, the challenges they face, the history of interactions between indigenous people 's ancestors and their own ancestors ... but those ... ... indigenous peoples It seems to be part of this country's past and history, but now it is not! 68

This article focuses on literature on mental health of Canadian indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples offer 370 million people to the population of more than 70 countries in the world (World Health Organization, 2007) and have different names throughout the world. Many scholars strongly believe that indigenous peoples around the world suffer from an unequal burden of mental illness. According to several studies colonialism and its related processes have been seen as playing an important role in judging the health status of international indigenous peoples. This survey was conducted because there was not much research on the mental health of Canadian indigenous peoples.