Indigenous Knowledge to Close Gaps in Indigenous Health | Marcia Anderson-DeCoteau | TEDxUManitoba

Health and wellness programs that are culture-based and use both western and Indigenous understanding have the prospective to be much more receptive to Native peoples and also their rights than the status and also might be the secret to closing the voids in Indigenous health and wellness.

Manito Ikwe Kagiikwe is a program that serves material involved females who are early or expecting parenting. They work according to the Seven Sacred Teachings, treating females who are usually the most stigmatized in the healthcare system with love and also respect.

Dr. Anderson DeCoteau is a Cree-Saulteaux doctor working in mostly administrative/ plan/ preparation
kind duties. She makes every effort to ground mainstream systems approaches to Indigenous wellness in Indigenous rights, as well as Indigenous understandings and also teachings around wellness, being healthy, and healingwhich sometimes needs
tough interpretations of scientific research as well as evidence.of

This talk was offered at a TEDx event making use of the TED meeting layout however individually organized by a local community. Learn a lot more at http://ted.com/tedx