Indigenous Peoples benefit from leading their own healthcare partnerships

What is it about?

• Indigenous Peoples in Canada benefit from regaining access to and strengthening traditional cultural ways of life, including health and healing practices. • Many Indigenous communities are working to strengthen cultural healing practices that were marred through colonization and oppressive government policies. • Indigenous-led health care partnerships provide innovative models of interprofessional collaboration, be it in community-based healing lodges, remote clinics or urban hospitals. • Emerging evidence suggests that Indigenous-led health service partnerships improve holistic (inclusive of mind, body, emotion and spirit) health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples, as well as access to care, prevention uptake and adherence to care plans

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Photo by Andrew George on Unsplash

Photo by Andrew George on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Colonial systems have long oppressed Indigenous health and medicine, but there are ways to right the wrongs.