Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
American Indian and Indigenous Health Disparities - Coggle Diagram
American Indian and Indigenous Health Disparities
American Indian Health Disparities: Psychosocial Influences
Examples of disparities: Increased death rates from diabetes, cancer, and infant mortality. Disproportionate rates of death from preventable causes like infant mortality, suicide, diabetes, alcohol-related, heart disease, and intentional injuries
Psychosocial Influences: History of genocide and boarding school experiences leading to trauma associated with poor health outcomes.
Childhood Predictor Risks: high calorie, low nutritional value foods from poverty, access, and food programs
Adverse Adult experiences: Poverty, racism, and substance abuse lead to depression anxiety, and poor health outcomes
Intergenerational Health Disparities: Parental influence continues to following generations
Historical Trauma known as "soul wound": Influence of early factors like warfare, genocide, and infectious diseases.
Reading takeaway: There is overwhelming evidence of health disparities for American Indian populations. These disparities are due to a history of mistreatment that has continued in the form of racism. Most of the disparities are preventable making the situation even more dire.
Going forward: To improve the health disparities, there should be a focus on cultural reclamation and tribal self-determination
Health of Indigenous People
Across the globe, indigenous people are experiencing social, cultural, demographic, nutritional, and psychoemotional changes that negatively impact health. These factors are interactive and produce lower health outcomes compared to non-indigenous people.
Examples of disparities: decreased life expectancy, increased child, infant, and maternal morbidity and mortality, cardiological issues, chronic diseases, and depression.
Why: Colonization, loss of ancestral land, language and cultural barriers in health care facilities
Indigeneity: Political and social connotations, conceptualized as a social construct through historical contextualization
Analytical framework: Disparities are due to the political economy and global westernization (ex. processed foods with poor nutrition)
Infectious diseases: Lack of previous exposure to certain microorganisms, locational parasites
Reproductive and Sexual Health: Gaps dependent on culture and geographical location, one commonality is few family planning options
Going forward: Anthropological role with cultural awareness and competency
Reading Takeaway: Health disparities are common for all indigenous populations in the world making the disparities a serious global health concern.