The Health of Indigenous Peoples
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Cultural and socio-economic factors in health, health services and prevention for indigenous people
Summary: Indigenous people across the world experience more health related problems as compared to the population at large. So, this review article is broadly an attempt to highlight the important factors for indigenous peoples’ health problems, and to recommend some suggestions to improve their health status. Standard database for instance, Pubmed, Medline, Google scholar, and Google book sear...
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