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Mi’kmaw people aged 20-39 are five times more likely to get diabetes than other Nova Scotians, according to a newly-created health care data-sharing registry for Indigenous communities.
The First Nations Client Linkage Registry is a joint project of First Nations chiefs, the provincial government and Health Canada. The new registry was announced Thursday at at the Cunard Centre in a signing ceremony featuring all 13 of the province’s Mi’kmaw chiefs.
“This registry is the first of its kind in Canada,” says Chief Andrea Paul of Pictou Landing First Nation. “Over the past several months the department of Health and Wellness has linked the registry with a number of provincial health data sources to develop health reports for our communities.”
According to Paul the registry includes information on issues such as rates of chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes, mental illness and information on the health of mothers and newborns.
Planning for the registry has been ongoing since October 2012.
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This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2016.
More money towards mental health. Maybe just maybe a miscarriage of justice would be prevented re Andre Denny. A man convicted of man slaughter who never ever should have been put into that situation. If I had left a loaded gun/rifle at a bus stop and it was used to kill some one, would I not be charged with culpability to murder. Why are the Health authorities being let off without being charged as accessory to murder/man slaughter. These Health authorities are criminally responsible, Policy be dammed, they screwed up big time.
A few years ago a man, Mr. Lee, copped off a guy’s head on a Greyhound bus, paranoid schizophrenia. The guy was off his meds, not GUILTY. Racism is in the Justice System, Free Andre Denny! Not that he will not ever leave the Hospital(s) but he may eventually be free of his pain.
Dr. Scott Theriault, you too busy or don’t give a FUCK. Man up and intervene some how.