Individual- and community-level determinants of Inuit youth mental wellness

Individual- and community-level determinants of Inuit youth mental wellness.

OBJECTIVES Following the onset of intensive colonial intervention and rapid social change in the lives of Inuit people, youth in Nunavik have experienced high rates of mental health problems and suicide. Inuit people describe a broad range of contextual influences on mental wellness based on lived experience, but most epidemiological studies have focused on individual risk factors and pathologi...

Rural Ontario Youth and Mental Wellness

Mental Health in Inuit Youth from Nunavik: Clinical Considerations on a Transcultural, Interdisciplinary, Community-oriented Approach.

OBJECTIVE This paper discusses the organization of mental health care for youth in Nunavik and considers how best to adapt care to the sociocultural and geographical specificities of this region. METHOD Services are described and discussed by a general practitioner and a community worker in Nunavik. RESULTS Current social and medical care delivery in Nunavik is provided by professionals who...

Association between individual-level and community-level socio-economic status and blood pressure among Inuit in Greenland

BACKGROUND Despite abundant evidence that socio-economic status (SES) is a fundamental determinant of health, there is a dearth of research examining association between SES, measured at the individual and community levels, and cardiovascular risk factors and morbidity among indigenous populations. OBJECTIVES To examine the influence of individual-level and community-level SES on systolic and...

Individual- and community-level influences on the timing of sexual debut among youth in Nyanza, Kenya.

CONTEXT Delaying sexual debut is an important HIV prevention strategy, yet few studies have examined associations between both community- and individual-level characteristics and sexual debut among youth in Sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS Cross-sectional survey data collected from 8,183 youth aged 11-17 in 160 schools in Nyanza, Kenya, were used to examine the relationships between individual and...