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Health System Matrix:

Providing a perspective into the provincial health system

In the majority of conditions, the First Nations prevalence rate was stable or improved between 2008/09 and 2014/15 CKD COPD Osteoarthritis Diabetes

• Rh. Arthritis

Stroke Heart Failure AMI Osteoporosis Colorectal Cancer Angina Mood Anxiety PTCA* Hypertension* Prostate* Epilepsy Dialysis Asthma Gap Increased Stable Rates Gap Lessened Breast Cancer CABG Cancer 1st Enc Alzheimer’s/Dementia No Difference with Other Residents or Lower Rates

First Nations were

• verrepresented in

emergency departments

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In 2014/15, First Nations had lower rates of attachment to GPs compared to Other Residents

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First Nations experienced higher rates of hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions

Indigenous Health and Well-being Update

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Age Standardized Mortality and Life Expectancy

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• Age Standardized Mortality Rate

Decreased among BC First Nations in 2015 compared with 2005.

• Average life expectancy among

First Nations in BC has improved slightly, since 2001-2005.

• At 75.1 years, compared to 83.3

years for other BC residents.

Closing the Gap

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• First Nations diabetes prevalence

remains greater than non-First Nations in BC; however

• The gap decreased and exceeded the

target.

• The gap in youth suicide rate between

Status First nation youth and other residents was reduced by 38 % .

Two-eyed Seeing

“learning to see from one eye with the strengths

• f Indigenous knowledges & ways of knowing,

& from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges & ways of knowing… learning to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all.”

• Elder Albert Marshall (Mi’kmaw Nation).

Renewed population health and wellness indicators: the Framework

Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Image: Royal BC Museum, Haida Pole 1966, Carvers: Henry Hunt and Tony Hunt, Haida Nation