Postl and Forest Canada urgently needs to invest in indigenous health – The Globe and Mail
May 04, 2016
Brian Postl is an adviser with EvidenceNetwork.ca and dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, and vice-provost, University of Manitoba. Pierre-Gerlier Forest is director of the School of Public Policy and Jack E. Palmer Chair in public policy at the University of Calgary.
The health of Canada’s indigenous people lags substantially behind other Canadians – and the tragic reality is well documented. Sadly, the data regarding poor health status for indigenous populations shows us this is true across all major illnesses and across all age groups.
In other words, being an indigenous person in Canada is too often a dangerous reality. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
