Barriers And Challenges Faced by Indigenous Population of Canada

Running Head: SOCIOLOGY
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Part I
Introduction
This section of the report will explore the insights regarding the problem solving
exercises. Being the industry analyst, this portrays a professional report explaining as well as
describing the social problem or the entire set of the inter related social challenge related to
barriers to health care services by indigenous Canadians. The thesis statement of the essay aims
to explore the topic related to the barriers and challenges faced by indigenous population of
Canada, specifically targeting the health care industry of the country (Denison, Varcoe &
Browne, 2014). This section of the essay will address the key factors that are involved within the
theoretical perspectives in relation to the topic with the use of lens for further investigation. The
essay will furthermore illustrate the approaches identified towards the explanation of the social
problem under consideration.
Discussion
This section descriptively addressed the questions regarding the investigation related to
the topic of the barriers related to health care access by the indigenous Canadians. The disparities
within the health care accessibility by the indigenous population and the non-indigenous people
residing in Canada has continued to be very much prevalent till the current date. According to
Boyer (2019), there lies a health gap among the indigenous and the non indigenous population
which can be explained or justified by their high rate of death rate which is caused majorly due
to the lack of proper access to health care facilities. Indigenous population residing in Canada are
majorly affected by non-communicable disease, cardiovascular challenges followed by mental
disorders and diabetes and chronic respiratory disease. The health risk nature tends to substantial
effect over several non-communicable disease while the indigenous people gets frequently

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engaged to detrimental risk behaviors of health like smoking of tobacco as well as the misuse
related to alcohol. Towards the light of the connection among the behaviors of health risk and the
outcomes of health, the theoretical perspectives that can be investigated includes the key factors
of social determinants of health, link among the status of health and socio economic status,
connection among chronic stress and perception of control. While considering the theoretical
models by Grol and Flottorp, the key factors which are involved in the theoretical perspective
towards the barriers to health care access involves patients, physical activity programs,
healthcare professionals, organization, social settings, governance and law (Arora, Kurji &
Tennant, 2013). The theoretical perspectives within this context majorly focused over
characteristics of the social settings, the characteristics of the governance and law in the context
of the indigenous health care facilities in Canada.
The most appropriate theoretical perspective that can be explained in the context of
barriers to health care access by the aboriginal Canadians, is the conflict theory. According to
Cameron et al., (2014), the key concepts and the factors involved within the major assumptions
of the conflict theory is that social inequality characterized the quality of the health care and
health. Population residing from the disadvantaged social backgrounds tends to become ill as
well as receive inadequate health care facilities. The theory defines that for increasing the
income status, the physicians tried to control the medicinal practices and also for the definition of
social problems as the medical challenges.
According to Barker et al., (2015), the conflict approach emphasizes over the inequality
regarding the health as well as the health care delivery. The quality related to health and health
care differs widely around the world and among the United States. Another theoretical approach
in this contexts is the social determinants theory that states that the inequality of the society

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together with the race, social class, ethnicity and the lines of gender are reproduced in the health
as well as the health care. The theoretical approach of conflict furthermore critiques the efforts
over the decades for controlling the medicinal practice for the definition of several social
challenges. The evidence related to the inequality at the medicine and health are some of the
negative aspects related to the motivation of medical establishment for extension of compelling
research. As per Bobo & Fox (2003), the conflict theory highlights the concept of capitalism as
well as the pursuit of profit leading to health commodification.
The approaches identified in relation to the conflict approaches and the social
determinants theoretical approaches explains the social challenge under consideration. The social
problem that has been considered in this essay is the barriers to health care access by indigenous
Canadians. Towards understanding the capitalist view of the Canadian society in the current
decade, it can be stated that non indigenous people having power and money are the dominant
group making certain decision regarding the process of the health care system of Canada. It has
thus been noticed that non indigenous community people residing in Canada ensures that though
the health coverage for all the community people in the Canada will be there, there also be
factors that simultaneously ensure that the indigenous community of people stays subordinate
through their lack of proper health care access (Halseth, 2013). This context majorly contributes
to significant health as well as health disparities among the dominant and the subordinate groups.
Together with the health disparities among the indigenous community people residing in Canada,
which are majorly created by the class inequalities, there furthermore lies factors contributing to
the rising health disparities among the indigenous population residing in Canada. These are
sexism, racism, ageism and the heterosexism. According to Lambert et al., (2014) while health
being the commodity highlighted in the context of the Canadian context and the barriers to the