INDIGENOUS HEALTH

Alberta Health Services

First Nations, Métis and Inuit populations comprise six per cent of Alberta’s population and experience significant gaps in health outcomes compared to non-Indigenous populations.1 For First Nations, we know that: 

• Mortality rates: 2X higher

• Infant mortality rates: 2X higher  

• Mortality due to unintended injury: 2.5X higher

• Female mortality due to assault: 7X higher 

• Opioid dispensation rates: 2X higher  Emergency visits: 2X higher 

• Rate for emergency department visits for opioids/narcotics: 5X higher 

• Suicide rate: 3X higher 

• COPD prevalence: 3X higher

We must do better…