Indigenous groups are disproportionately impacted by influenza in numerous countries worldwide, including Canada, according to the first study to measure this issue on such a wide scale.
Indigenous people in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia were three to six times more likely to be hospitalized for influenzaIn Canada, New Zealand and Australia, Indigenous people were more than five times as likely to be hospitalized with influenza.
Although this issue has been recorded in previous studies, researchers say this is the first time that this inequity has been estimated on a global scale. In order to get a broad picture of how Indigenous groups were impacted by influenza, researchers performed a review and meta-analysis of 36 studies that looked at data relating to influenza hospitalizations and deaths for Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations worldwide.
More than half of the studies had extractable data relating to hospitalization, while five had extractable data only relating to mortality. A total of 26 of the included studies were looking at hospitalizations and deaths that had occurred during the 2009 pandemic of H1N1, a type of influenza known as swine flu.
"For many global Indigenous populations, including those from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States and Brazil, the experience of colonialism is the common factor driving health inequities," researchers wrote in the study.
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