Indigenous peoples are more at risk for severe flu. This has been reported by the American Doherty Institute.
Katherine Gibney and her colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of 36 studies that examined hospitalizations and deaths from flu among indigenous and non-indigenous peoples worldwide. By indigenous peoples, the authors primarily mean the ethnic groups that lived in a particular land from ancient times until the arrival of white (or Asian) colonists. Many of these peoples have partially preserved their traditional lifestyles and do not have a developed service and health sector.
It turned out that representatives of these peoples suffer from flu much more often than nations with great titles. In Canada, New Zealand and Australia, indigenous peoples were more than five times more likely to be hospitalized for the flu than the general population.
The same was true for many other countries, but data were scarce for low-income states with underdeveloped institutions.
The authors hope that their findings will form the basis of public policy aimed at reducing inequality.
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