OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents of rural and remote Australia and to identify associated factors. FINDINGS Indigenous Australians have higher rates of serious mental disorders and of mental health problems associated with social disadvantage. This disadvantage is greater for Indigenous Australians living outside metropol...

This paper illustrates how students from indigenous groups from the Chittagong Hill Tracts who migrated to Dhaka adapt to their new urban environment. To grasp the challenges for student migrants I first provide a background to the Chittagong Hill Tracts region and the problems of national integration of the region in Bangladesh. Afterwards I investigate the role of national and international i...

BACKGROUND Health-service evaluation studies are fundamental for proposing interventions and ensuring improvements in healthcare quality. The present study assesses the performance of health services for indigenous and non-indigenous populations with regard to tuberculosis (TB) control. METHODS Interviews with TB patients who underwent treatment between 2009 and 2011 were conducted using the ...

This paper describes different elements leading to the success of cooperatives formed by indigenous Maya women of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. These elements have shown to facilitate the sustainability (permanence over time) of the cooperatives and their presence in the market, while improving the work environment and enhancing the practice of honesty. All these elements have generated an i...

BACKGROUND About 40% of all health burden in New Zealand is due to cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes/obesity. Outcomes for Māori (indigenous people) are significantly worse than non-Maori; these inequities mirror those found in indigenous communities elsewhere. Evidence-based interventions with established efficacy may not be effective in indigenous communities without address...

INTRODUCTION Mexico faces important problems concerning income and health inequity. Mexico's national public agenda prioritizes remedying current inequities between its indigenous and non-indigenous population groups. This study explores the changes in social inequalities among Mexico's indigenous and non-indigenous populations for the time period 2000 to 2010 using routinely collected poverty,...

BACKGROUND Systematic evidence on the patterns of health deprivation among indigenous peoples remains scant in developing countries. We investigate the inequalities in mortality and substance use between indigenous and non-indigenous, and within indigenous, groups in India, with an aim to establishing the relative contribution of socioeconomic status in generating health inequalities. METHODS...

The book highlights how mission stations became important arenas, not only for enabling transnational flows of knowledge, but also for cross-cultural exchanges of knowledge between locals and foreign sisters. One would have expected that, throughout the history of Catholic medical missions, missionaries would have worked hard to marginalise indigenous medical practices. But Wall demonstrates th...

Last week was a landmark event for the health of 370 million Indigenous people spread across 70 countries. At the fi fth session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), a programme of action for a second decade dedicated to the world’s Indigenous peoples was launched. The overarching theme of the decade is to link specifi c objectives for Indigenous peoples with a broader globa...