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Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 89 - 92
The Enduring Plague: How Tuberculosis in Canadian Indigenous Communities is Emblematic of a Greater Failure in Healthcare Equality
Authors
Sarah Hick*
Departments of Biology and International Development, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
*Email: sarah.hick@mail.mcgill.ca
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Sarah Hick
Received 9 February 2019, Accepted 8 March 2019, Available Online 1 May 2019.
- DOI
- 10.2991/jegh.k.190314.002How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Health equality; Indigenous health care; tuberculosis
- Abstract
Despite global strides made in prevention and treatment, tuberculosis (TB) remains an acute problem for Indigenous people in Canada. TB affects Indigenous communities at significantly higher rates than the general Canadian population, for whom it is a disease of the past. This paper suggests how colonialism and its history of violence have shaped the face of TB in Canada, and thus how TB is a telling point of analysis for considering the lack of equity and equality in healthcare delivery in Canada.
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- © 2019 Atlantis Press International B.V.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - JOUR AU - Sarah Hick PY - 2019 DA - 2019/05/01 TI - The Enduring Plague: How Tuberculosis in Canadian Indigenous Communities is Emblematic of a Greater Failure in Healthcare Equality JO - Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health SP - 89 EP - 92 VL - 9 IS - 2 SN - 2210-6014 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/jegh.k.190314.002 DO - 10.2991/jegh.k.190314.002 ID - Hick2019 ER -