Description - By the numbers... Health care access
- About 18% of First Nations people living off reserve, 16% of Métis and 40% of Inuit travelled outside their community for health care in the 12 months before the 2024 Survey Series on First Nations People, Métis and Inuit.
- In 2024, health care services that support Indigenous traditional medicines, healing and wellness practices in the Canadian health care system were very or somewhat important to First Nations people living off reserve (86%), Métis (70%) and Inuit (82%).
Note to readers
This publication is part of our “By the numbers…” series on topics related to Indigenous populations across Canada for National Indigenous History Month. If you missed any of the previous articles, you can easily find them by searching “Indigenous History Month” in the app.
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