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By pre-emptively treating patients who have become colonized with an antimicrobial resistant organism, the likelihood of the patient going on to develop life-threatening healthcare-associated infections is reduced. Common sites of bacterial colonization include the nasal passage, groin, oral cavity and skin. [1]
Prior to European colonisation, it is likely that the health of Indigenous Australians was better than that of the inhabitants of poorer sections of Europe. [1] Colonisation impacted the health of Indigenous Australians via land dispossession, social marginalisation, political oppression, incarceration, acculturation and population decline.
In Colonial America, local doctors, midwives, healers and even officials administered medical care to the residents in their village or town. [2] There was no distinction between physicians and surgeons; when an emergency occurred the person who was responsible for administering medical care was expected to handle all aspects of the problem. [2]
Colonization resistance is the mechanism whereby the microbiome protects itself against incursion by new and often harmful microorganisms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Colonization resistance was first identified in 1967, and it was initially referred to as antibiotic -associated susceptibility.
The history of Aboriginal Australians is said to have spanned some 60,000 years prior to colonization, [7] yet they were first cited by Europeans in 1606. [8] Further investigations of the land over the years leading to James Cook's arrival in 1769-70, suggested that the Aboriginal people were hunter-gatherers, who were described as "beasts who roamed the land". [8]
"'Colonization and the Wampanoag Story' is a carefully researched, fact-based account of the Indigenous perspective of the tribes of the New England area on the impacts of European colonization ...
A colonial mentality is an internalized ethnic, linguistic, or cultural inferiority complex imposed on peoples as a result of colonization, i.e. being invaded and conquered by another nation state and then being gaslit, often through the educational system, into linguistic imperialism and cultural assimilation [1] through an instilled belief that the language and culture of the colonizer are ...
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