Growing up with faith, trust and maturity toward Pan-Asian indigenous health equity

ABSTRACT

The health of the world’s indigenous communities remains in a state of inequality. This journal reviews current literature, highlights ongoing Pan-Asian indigenous disparities and outlines structured guidance that remains committed to expert recommendations. Communities that are indigenous to Pan-Asia continue to struggle with poor research, lack of effective health equity interventions, lack of accurate statistical representation and political oppression. There is a current level of maturity, however, with initial foundations. These foundations can be established for the scaling of health equity advancement. Recommendations to advance health equity for the Pan-Asian indigenous community include the design of high-quality research, establishment of a trusted entity to remain faithful to comprehensive indigenous data, acknowledgment of ecosystem factors that impact indigenous health, scaling of interventions and maturity in global governance. Improvements to multiple aspects of Pan-Asian indigenous healthcare will transform the entire global indigenous outlook, and the responsibility of inclusiveness will help global healthcare grow up maturely.

KEYWORDS:

• Tribal health
• indigenous health
• indigenous equity
• global medicine
• vulnerable population health

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Julie Babyar

Julie Babyar is a registered nurse and public health professional. She is committed to collegiality and global collaboration in her health systems expertise.