ACP lists recommendations to mitigate health disparities for Indigenous people

In a new position paper, published on Indigenous Peoples' Day, ACP stated that policymakers must provide financial resources to support equitable health care for Indigenous populations.
Indigenous people face poorer health outcomes, higher rates of poverty and incarceration and disparities in access to health care compared with other populations. They also face socioeconomic factors that further contribute to health disparities, according to ACP, many resulting from “decades of societal discrimination, removal and forced assimilation, and historical trauma.”
“The forcible

In a new position paper, published on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, ACP stated that policymakers must provide financial resources to support equitable health care for Indigenous populations.
Indigenous people face poorer health outcomes, higher rates of poverty and incarceration and disparities in access to health care compared with other populations. They also face socioeconomic factors that further contribute to health disparities, according to ACP, many resulting from “decades of societal discrimination, removal and forced assimilation, and historical trauma.”
“The forcible