Table 2
Percentage of First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit aged 15 and older who reported unmet health care needs in the 12 months prior to the survey, by reasons for not receiving health services, Canada, 2024
| Estimate – First Nations people living off reserve | Lower limit of confidence interval (95%) – First Nations people living off reserve | Upper limit of confidence interval (95%) – First Nations people living off reserve | Estimate – Métis | Lower limit of confidence interval (95%) – Métis | Upper limit of confidence interval (95%) – Métis | Estimate – Inuit | Lower limit of confidence interval (95%) – Inuit | Upper limit of confidence interval (95%) – Inuit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Reasons1 | |||||||||
| No health care services in your area/too far away | 27.6 | 20.9 | 35.1 | 13.2 | 8.2 | 19.8 | 33.1 | 24.3 | 42.9 |
| Not given the correct treatment or prescription | 26.4 | 19.6 | 34.2 | 26.0 | 18.9 | 34.2 | 36.3 | 24.8 | 49.1 |
| Difficulty getting a referral to a specialist | 38.7 | 31.4 | 46.4 | 46.8 | 36.8 | 57.1 | 44.4 | 34.5 | 54.6 |
| Lack of available, culturally appropriate health care services | 19.2 | 12.9 | 27.0 | 9.7 | 5.2 | 16.3 | 12.0 | 6.8 | 19.2 |
| Health care services not accessible | 19.3 | 13.4 | 26.4 | 13.5 | 8.5 | 20.1 | 16.8 | 9.6 | 26.3 |
| Awareness of racism or discrimination in the health care system | 19.3 | 13.4 | 26.3 | 9.2 | 5.0 | 15.3 | 16.9 | 10.6 | 24.9 |
| No access to transportation/travel cost too high | 18.9 | 12.5 | 26.9 | 13.2 | 7.9 | 20.2 | 13.4 | 8.2 | 20.3 |
| Supplemental health insurance coverage was denied | 16.3 | 11.3 | 22.3 | 9.7 | 5.3 | 15.9 | 13.3 | 6.6 | 22.9 |
| Lack of available childcare or cost of childcare too high | 10.5 | 6.0 | 16.8 | F | ... | ... | F | ... | ... |
| Used own traditional healing methods, ceremonies or medicines | 10.4 | 6.1 | 16.2 | 10.6 | 5.9 | 17.2 | 10.6 | 5.6 | 17.6 |
| Language barrier | F | ... | ... | F | ... | ... | 10.1 | 4.4 | 19.1 |
| Other reasons | 38.5 | 30.6 | 46.9 | 37.3 | 29.1 | 46.1 | 29.5 | 20.8 | 39.5 |
...
not applicable
F
too unreliable to be published
Note(s):
Single and multiple responses to the Indigenous identity question are used when reporting data for the three Indigenous groups. The Survey Series on First Nations People, Métis and Inuit is based on a probability panel consisting of individuals who agreed to participate in further studies when they responded to the 2022 Indigenous Peoples Survey. As a result of this methodology, it has a low cumulative response rate which increases the risk of bias. All estimates in this table should therefore be used with caution.
Source(s):
Survey Series on First Nations people, Métis and Inuit – Health Care Access and Experiences, 2024 (5410).
Table note 1
Question was asked only of those who had unmet health care needs in the past 12 months prior to the survey and responses were not mutually exclusive.
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