Improving Participation for Indigenous Communities: Health

Running head: JUSTICE & CHANGE IN GLOBAL WORLD 1
Justice and Change in Global World
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JUSTICE & CHANGE IN GLOBAL WORLD 2
Justice and Change in Global World
Improving Participation for Indigenous Communities: Health
There is a huge disparity between the non-indigenous and indigenous people’s health and
life expectancy. This has been a major global challenge. Chronic diseases are associated with gap
in life expectancy for various populations around the world. Various researches suggest that
chronic situations management models on self-management have resulted to better health results
in Indigenous people. Additionally, indigenous people always find it challenging to access the
primary health care (Kalb, Le, Hunter & Leung, 2014). Therefore, this paper intends to analyze
the challenges faced by nursing professionals in relation to realizing aspirations of the common
good of the indigenous population in their profession, locally, and globally.
Background Information
Chronic conditions are the casual of numerous disability and death within the local
communities and to the world at large. Such conditions results to a substantial impact on the
quality of life within the various indigenous communities around the world. Chronic condition
affects the indigenous group in a wider scale than non-indigenous. Indigenous people get
affected by chronic conditions at an early stage, which accounts to for the wide gap in death rate
between the non-indigenous and indigenous groups (Sorensen, Fowler, Nash, & Bacon, 2010).
Moreover, the indigenous people have not been able to fully accessing more effective advanced
chronic condition management (CCM) due to exclusion and marginalization they experience
from the mainstream. Moreover, self-management is being involved in the management of
individual’s disease on all aspects of living. However, there is a concern that CCM models of
care must look into the emotional, economical, and social awareness of the indigenous in relation
to sensitivity to the consequences of loss and grief they faced in relation colonization.