If an Aboriginal person fronts up to hospital with, say, a broken leg, it makes sense to offer them more screening for diabetes and renal problems than you might offer a white person in the same situation.
Diabetes isn't an "Aboriginal" disease, in the same way that it's not an "obese" disease. I wouldn't tell Aboriginal people that they must be obese because they're at risk of diabetes... I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
If, instead, this money was put into heart disease treatment/research/care (or any other disease which could be better treated with more money) then an Aboriginal person and a non Aboriginal person with the same disease could both receive the same care that they deserve.
We already know that the way we normally distribute health care resources leads to Aboriginal people being disadvantaged. More attention, not less, needs to be paid to the disparity. Feigning colourblindness doesn't fix racism.
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Diabetes isn't an "Aboriginal" disease, in the same way that it's not an "obese" disease. I wouldn't tell Aboriginal people that they must be obese because they're at risk of diabetes... I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
If, instead, this money was put into heart disease treatment/research/care (or any other disease which could be better treated with more money) then an Aboriginal person and a non Aboriginal person with the same disease could both receive the same care that they deserve.
We already know that the way we normally distribute health care resources leads to Aboriginal people being disadvantaged. More attention, not less, needs to be paid to the disparity. Feigning colourblindness doesn't fix racism.