ABSTRACT
Globalization has had disproportionate impact on Indigenous peoples worldwide, especially in some countries in the South. Therefore, global efforts in poverty reduction have not witnessed equitable change in poverty measures. Socioeconomic status measures are current income level, recent income change, poverty flags, current earnings, multi-period averaged incomes and relative position in the income distribution (Gurran and Phipps, 2003). Several studies demonstrate that there are associations between income and morbidity. Since the mid-nineteenth century, globalization has posed challenges for global health governance.
