Opinion: Person-centered health care means ensuring that affected communities are leaders and partners in researchFor people experiencing health issues and entering the health system as patients, an arrival at a hospital or a local clinic can be daunting. The health care setting can be uncomfortable and unfamiliar. People maywith communicating in a less familiar language or be faced with technical medical terms and jargon.
) or Indigenous community, and/or are of European heritage and work closely with the Inuit community. Together, we bring knowledge and experience with research, health systems and Indigenous cultures.. To attain health systems that support person centered-care, we need research that is done in ways that support the priorities and participation of the people the research is meant to benefit; in other words, research that is person-centered.
In contrast, the western-oriented studies took health promotion approaches to change peoples' behaviors, outside of health settings and were less supportive of person-centered care.Our work indicates that, in the field of Indigenous health, tackling the challenge of inequities and challenging underlying and systemic structural issues in health systems to support person-centered care iswith people and communities who will use or be affected by the research findings.