Type 2 diabetes and children in aboriginal communities: the array of factors that shape health and access to health care

ID:	HARP-159
Title:	Type 2 diabetes and children in aboriginal communities: the array of factors that shape health and access to health care
Source:	Health Law Journal, v.10 2002
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Year:	2002
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, government, human rights, legislation, non-discrimination, treaty, treaties, health, Europe, war, civil and political rights, Amerindian, indigenous people, minority rights, self-determination, standard of living
Abstract:	The history of Canada’s Indigenous peoples would be incomplete without examining and recounting the ravaging toll exacted by illness on their civilization. First contacts between Aboriginal communities and European explorers and settlers were marked by an onslaught of disease and war, resulting in significant population declines among Indigenous communities, and in rare cases, the virtual extinction of Amerindian nations. By the 1870s, European expansion and industrialization resulted in the relocation of Indigenous peoples onto reserve territories where pestilence and famine continued to plague their communities. Through legislation and treaties with Aboriginal leaders, the Canadian government promised to provide for and protect the health of Indigenous peoples, and thereby guarantee the welfare of future generations. Nevertheless, these issues continued to be ignored by the government throughout most of the twentieth century.
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