Discuss why Indigenous people globally experience health disparities which impact their health and...

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Discuss why Indigenous people globally experience health disparities which impact their health and life expectancy. Identify factors that have influenced these disparities (for example, social, political or economic). Illustrate with discussion by elaborating on one Indigenous community of your choosing.

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Running Head: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HEALTH DISPARITIES 	1
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HEALTH DISPARITIES 	2
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HEALTH DISPARITIES
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Reason for Indigenous People Experiencing Health Disparities Globally Affecting their Health and Life Expectancy	3
Factors Influencing Health Disparities	3
Illustrating with One Selected Indigenous Community	4
Conclusion	5
References	7
Introduction
According to the estimation made by the United Nation, there are 37 million indigenous group stays globally in 70 different countries. These groups have diverse cultures and languages. However, in most cases, these indigenous populations are observed to have persisting health inequality and a higher rate of mortality. The current assignment focuses on the reasons for the same.
Reason for Indigenous People Experiencing Health Disparities Globally Affecting their Health and Life Expectancy
There are several data that have been generated by the World Health Organization. Due to the extreme poverty among the indigenous populations, there are other factors as well, such as lack of education as well as social services, which make the destruction in the socio-political and economic structures. As stated by Ring, Dixon, Lovett and Al-Yaman (2016), as a result, the health status of this population is low. In addition, there are other factors that include force-displacement, degradation in terms of their customary resources and lands and armed conflict has resulted in the poor health of the indigenous population.
Factors Influencing Health Disparities
There are cases where due to the excessive social discrimination and racism, the women as well as the children within the indigenous population become vulnerable to different diseases. According to Burns et al. (2019), these include malnutrition, cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS high number of infant mortality and different infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria. The health disparities among the indigenous people are due to two main reasons.
As opined by Kirmayer and Brass (2016), this includes a widespread of the structural inequalities with a high impact on the multiple rights as well as social determinants that result in creating vulnerability.

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