2. Thesis statement
Health Inequity challenges the development space and its impact is worrisome both from the public health and human right perspective. It has its origin from discrimination dated back to the colonial era. Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities have long history of discrimination as a result of the colonization and this resulted in health inequity between the indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. These centuries of prejudices deserves inclusive policy-driven approach to produce positive health outcome totally free of inequity. Policy-makers often perceive the indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities as been laid back and therefore blame their health problem on their backwardness, their culture and perhaps their bad habits. On the contrary to the policy-makers opinion, the aftermath of the Spanish and Portuguese invasions in Latin America about five hundred years ago ensued disease epidemic that decimated millions of the indigenous peoples. The historical connection between the majority ethnic group and the indigenous or minority ethnic group in Africa, Asia and Middle East is the genesis of their present situation. To an extent, the national policy support received by indigenous peoples is quantifiable to their population. Bolivia is an example of a country with …show more content…
As a matter of fact, some countries have poor documentation of the health situation of their minority and indigenous people. According to scientific and government reports, few countries such as Australia, North America and New Zealand with about 1.1 percent of the world’s indigenous population possess indigenous health data. The developing regions of Latin America, South Asia and Africa have insufficient policy and scientific attention to combat indigenous health
Health Inequity challenges the development space and its impact is worrisome both from the public health and human right perspective. It has its origin from discrimination dated back to the colonial era. Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities have long history of discrimination as a result of the colonization and this resulted in health inequity between the indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. These centuries of prejudices deserves inclusive policy-driven approach to produce positive health outcome totally free of inequity. Policy-makers often perceive the indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities as been laid back and therefore blame their health problem on their backwardness, their culture and perhaps their bad habits. On the contrary to the policy-makers opinion, the aftermath of the Spanish and Portuguese invasions in Latin America about five hundred years ago ensued disease epidemic that decimated millions of the indigenous peoples. The historical connection between the majority ethnic group and the indigenous or minority ethnic group in Africa, Asia and Middle East is the genesis of their present situation. To an extent, the national policy support received by indigenous peoples is quantifiable to their population. Bolivia is an example of a country with …show more content…
As a matter of fact, some countries have poor documentation of the health situation of their minority and indigenous people. According to scientific and government reports, few countries such as Australia, North America and New Zealand with about 1.1 percent of the world’s indigenous population possess indigenous health data. The developing regions of Latin America, South Asia and Africa have insufficient policy and scientific attention to combat indigenous health