Indigenous Health Issues

Achieving better health for indigenous people is a challenge throughout the world. Indigenous population have poor health condition than rest of the population in most of the country. This gap in health is larger in develop country than developing county. Many governmental, non-governmental as well as international organizations like WHO, works to improve indigenous health but these effort and work still lacks to meet the gap. One’s health is not about living rather it is a resource which assures normal living (WHO 2014). Indigenous people around the world live isolated from rest of the society. Similar Indigenous Australian live in their own surrounding with lack of support , inadequate facilities for living, joblessness, poverty, lower living

These are the people who are believed to own the land since a long generation. In various part of the world indigenous people maintain their diverse living style, socioeconomic status, culture, tradition apart from rest of the society (WHO 2014). Likewise, they are known by various names in different part of the world such as natives, ethnic groups, aboriginal, adivasi and janajati (WHO 2014). Further, the indigenous population around the world consist of about 370 million people which comprise of one third of 900 million poor rural people in the world (United Nations Department of Public Information 2010).They believe themselves different from other society in their country (University of Minnesota Human Rights Centre 2003). Moreover, in some country indigenous people represent the majority of population whereas; in others their number is very less. In addition to this, in some part of the world indigenous people prefer to adopt new culture and move on with time while many of them prefer lifestyle as their ancestor, which is apart from the world (University of Minnesota Human Rights Centre

The life expectancy of indigenous people is 20 years less than other non-indigenous people in Australia, 13 years less in Guatemala and 11 years less in New Zealand. Furthermore the maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate, occurrence of diseases like tuberculosis and malaria, misbalance in rate of nutrition, occurrence of heart disease; HIV/AIDS is high in these groups (United Nations Department of Public Information 2010). First of all, taking in account the status of indigenous health, in Rwandan Twa indigenous population address for seven times poor sanitation than other people in the country (WHO 2014). Likewise, in Viet Nam the ethnic minority face poor reproductive health twice as more as the Viet Nam's majority ethnic group (WHO 2014). Correspondingly, in Panama the average infant mortality rate in indigenous population is thrice more than rest of the population (WHO 2014). Further, in worldwide figure 50% of indigenous adult have Type 2 diabetes mellitus (WHO