BACKGROUND: Indigenous social determinants of health, including the ongoing impacts of
colonization, contribute to increased rates of chronic disease and a health equity gap for …

… Lynden Crowshoe is an academic family physician with a clinical and research focus on
Aboriginal populations, chronic disease, health models and medical education. He also works …

Improving health outcomes for Indigenous peoples with diabetes requires sufficient capacity
and quality of health-care resources that are grounded in the person's specific social and …

Background: Ethnic disparities in access to health care and health outcomes are well
documented. It is unclear whether similar differences exist between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal …

Objectives The perspectives of physicians caring for Indigenous patients with diabetes offer
important insights into the provision of health-care services. The purpose of this study was to …

Globally, it is known that the incidence of end-stage renal disease is higher among
Aboriginals, but it is unknown whether this is due to an increased prevalence of chronic kidney …

… Lynden Crowshoe (he/him) is from the Piikani nation, one of the three Blackfoot tribes in
Southern Alberta. He is a physician-scholar who seeks to bridge multiple disciplines of …

Objective To estimate prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS),
psoriatic disease (PsD), and crystal‐related arthritis and health care use for inflammatory …

The determinants of health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations
include factors amenable to medical education’s influence—for example, the competence of …

Context Efforts are underway in many parts of the world to develop medical education curricula
that address the health care issues of indigenous populations. The topic of stereotypes …