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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: skinowski who wrote (18879)	8/19/2010 4:40:06 PM
From: gg cox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

<< Many other reasons are also play a part.>> Yes they do.The deplorable statistics on aboriginal health in Canada tells the tale.Many aboriginal communities are isolated and remote from proper healthcare and access to nutritional diet...many living on pop and chips unfortunately.They are about 1.5 million of canada's 33 million population. Stats below are for BC, but the rates track similar across the country and scew the numbers down for the rest of the country as in the posted article. ""Health Indicators: Aboriginal population compared to general population Live on average seven years less Have an infant mortality rate between two to four times higher Rate of diabetes is triple AIDS/HIV deaths are double Alcohol related deaths range between 4 and 9 times higher, and drug-induced deaths are two to seven four times higher Hospitalization rate and preventable admissions are likewise higher among the Aboriginal population The hospitalization rate is 39% higher among Aboriginal men compared to the non-Aboriginal men and even higher among Aboriginal women — 77% higher Psychiatric hospitalization rates are 50-100 percent higher Hospitalization rate for diabetes is 12 percent higher among Aboriginal men and 150 percent higher for Aboriginal women Rate of preventable hospital admissions for Status Indians is three times higher Aboriginal utilization of residential care in Vancouver is twice as high Utilization rate for home support hours is less than the rate for non-Aboriginals across BC, but the utilization by Aboriginals in the VCH region is more than 70 percent higher than the rate seen among Aboriginals elsewhere in BC. It is recognized that improvements in health status of Aboriginal people will depend on improvements in the social determinants of health and not just improvements to health services. On average, the Aboriginal population has levels of employment, income, and educational attainment that are about 80 percent of other British Columbians. aboriginalhealth.vch.ca