Aboriginal Health Issues

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Health Care How one woman is trying to change the native people’s health care experience This article is about a woman, Dr. Janet Smylie, who has created a program to help generate knowledge and information on historical and current aboriginal lifestyles to find new ways of connecting aboriginal individuals to our health care system, as it was not designed with aboriginals in mind. Because aboriginals have such a distinct culture, there are many aspects of their culture that have had a strong impact on the health issues that plague many of their communities. Dr. Smylie’s goal is to learn as much about their culture as possible to help get to the core of the issue and prevent these health issues for future generations. This article certainly…show more content…
I would say that this article compares to what we discussed in class as it is unanimous that in order for aboriginal health care to turn around, government aid and assistance is a must. Aboriginal health issues will not simply dissolve on their own, and without government funded programs these issues will only grow. I don’t believe that the writer did a particularly good job of discussing the topic because they failed to mention that funding is not needed so much to remedy the health issues, but more so needed to go deeper and prevent the issues from occurring in the first place, which is a much more extensive and expensive procedure. I believe that closing NAHO is a terrible idea because this is the type of organization that could really help make some progress in improving aboriginals health issues, if done properly. To me it seems comparative to patching up potholes in broken roads; Instead of just forking out small amounts of money to fix the issues on the surface, put up enough money to completely redo the road. In the end the problem gets fixed and the amount of money you spend patching up the problem will equal out to what was spent to completely repair the

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