The health of indigenous peoples

摘要: When launching the international decade for world's indigenous peoples in 1994, president of United Nations General Assembly warned dire circumstances facing peoples: “Their social structures and lifestyles have suffered repercussions modern development.”1 Although there is no single definition peoples, an ancient relationship with a defined territory ethnic distinctiveness are two distinguishing features. There some 5000 groups total population about 200 million, or around 4% global population.2 The 1999 Declaration on Health Survival Indigenous Peoples by World Organization proposed health: “Indigenous peoples' concept health survival both collective individual inter-generational continuum encompassing holistic perspective incorporating four distinct shared dimensions life. These spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional. Linking these fundamental dimensions, manifests itself multiple levels where past, present, future co-exist simultaneously.”3 Although standards show …