Impact Of Health Pandemics On Non-Aboriginal Health

The government of Canada does not take aboriginal water issues as seriously as places like Walkerton and North Battleford because aboriginal communities face a lot of health pandemics, have poor infrastructure and sanitation facilities and do not receive enough federal funding . Firstly, Health pandemics have a greater impact on Aboriginal communities than on non-aboriginal regions.According to statistics,“Aboriginal peoples constitute only 3.8% of the Canadian population, from April 2009 to April 2010, [but] accounted for 7.4-10% of hospitalizations due to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic(Boggild et al 2011)” because of “poor living conditions such as overcrowding and a lack of running water”(National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health 2011).