100 years after the discovery of insulin in Toronto, Indigenous people in Canada face the highest risk of developing diabetes, but are not well represented in diabetes research. Indigenous people have 3·5 times the age-standardised prevalence rate of diabetes and...
While modern medicine has since taken over for medical procedures like abortions in Hawaiʻi, many traditional practices to maintain health and well-being continue. Cage Rivera/Rewire News Group illustration Long before Westerners set foot in Hawai’i, Native Hawaiians...
Objective: Studies have highlighted the inequities between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with respect to the burden of cardiovascular disease and prevalence of predisposing risks resulting from historical and ongoing impacts of colonization. The...
Objective: Indigenous populations have been disproportionately affected during pandemics. We investigated COVID-19 mortality estimates among Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations at national and sub-national levels in Mexico. Methods: We obtained data from the...
