New data helps put ‘Indigenous health back into Indigenous hands’ – SooToday.com
The research looked at rates of diabetes, prescription opioid use and the prevalence of people experiencing discrimination when accessing health care
KENORA — The head of an Indigenous-led health care centre in Kenora says new data should help secure additional funding for its work.
Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe’iyewigamig, or WNHAC, is one of the local health care organizations involved in recent work by Toronto-based researcher Octavia Wong that used data from Our Health Counts to document the experiences of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people in several Ontario cities, including Kenora and Thunder Bay.
