Health conditions of aboriginal peoples in Belize, Guyana and Suriname

ABSTRACT

Reports on the health situation of the aboriginal peoples of St. Vincent, Dominica, Belize, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. Focuses on cultural, social and political factors that constrain the health of aboriginal peoples, including the primacy of government in health delivery despite its increased inability to do so due to cutbacks in public revenue; highly centralized political structures that leave no escape for decentralization; and the prevailing cultural pluralism that confines aboriginal peoples to the bottom of the hierarchical social ladder(AU)