More aboriginal health staff vital – StarPhoenix
Butler is dean of the University of Saskatchewan College of Nursing and Exner-Pirot is the strategist for outreach and indigenous engagement. They are authors of the Conference Board of Canada’s Saskatchewan Institute Report, Health Foundations: Nursing’s Role in Building Strong Aboriginal Communities.
Recent events have highlighted the struggles the health-care system faces in responding to the needs of Canada’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit clients and supporting equitable health outcomes.
The challenges we face are deep-seated and structural and affected by a complex web of historical, colonial, racial, and class factors. There are no easy solutions, but there’s an obvious one.
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