Australia's indigenous population fares especially badly.
The island of Jamaica was sparsely inhabited by indigenous sea faring peoples when it was established as a Spanish settlement in 1509.
Despite this, we found that overall Indigenous people who had treatment fared worse than non-indigenous people who had treatment, suggesting either the type or quality of treatment, or other non-treatment factors at play in overall treatment outcomes.
Again, Australia fared the worst, with Indigenous median annual income barely reaching above half that of non-Indigenous people across the reference period, while Canada and New Zealand had made some improvements by 2006.
"LET'S ZYDECO" The admirable concert series dedicated to the various indigenous musical forms of Louisiana takes a break from its usual fare for a holiday party with the local honky-tonk and rockabilly band Li'l Mo and the Monicats.
Across the continent, meanwhile, indigenous people, governments and corporations alike will be watching how Peru fares.
The country's film industry is small but growing, though viewings of indigenous films are usually confined to theatres in the cities; in smaller towns and villages, film fare is likely to come from either Hollywood or India.
Indigenous Australians historically experienced higher unemployment rates, lower income and inter-generational poverty than other Australians, and fare worse across other related social determinants of health [ 40].
They fare better in numeracy, with Years 5 through to 9 achieving the same results as their non-Indigenous peers.
As Fares sees it, combatting fearmongering isn't just the responsibility of victims, or the responsibility of Indigenous communities, or of any other communities it's up to all of us.
