Canada’s First Peoples
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Policy (Mis)Alignment: Addressing Type 2 Diabetes in Aboriginal Communities in Canada
In this article, we employ Bacchi’s (1999) What’s the Problem approach to policy analysis to examine Health Canada’s Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI) and the ways in which it articulates with existing federal policies that relate to three Aboriginal social determinants of health: colonialism, education, and health care. Focusing our analysis on the Aboriginal population with the highest pre...
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The troubling economic outcomes faced by many of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples are well documented. The most recent release of the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) revealed that the gaps in labour market outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities continue to persist. Worse still, the progress made since 1996 in closing those gaps has stagnated from the 2006 Census (Table 1). T...
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In the article “Identifying Gaps in Asthma Education, Health Promotion, and Social Support for Mi’kmaq Families in Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia, Canada,” an error occurs in the first sentence of the Introduction. That sentence should read, “The health of Canada’s 1.5 million Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-645-x/2010001/count-pop-deno...
متن کاملChronic Diseases and Mortality in Canadian Aboriginal Peoples: Learning From the Knowledge* *This article is part of a joint publication initiative between Preventing Chronic Disease and Chronic Diseases in Canada. Preventing Chronic Disease is the secondary publisher, while Chronic Diseases in Canada is the primary publisher.
It is a sad fact that Canada’s Aboriginal people, whether living in rural communities or in urban centers, have a significantly lower life expectancy than non-Aboriginal Canadians.1 The gap in health status of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples is a matter of ongoing concern;2 recognizing and understanding the social determinants of health is key to understanding the difference in health status and, i...
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With the presentation in Ottawa this spring of the report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada on Indian residential schools, the well-being of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples took centre stage for a few days in the media and minds of the Canadian public. The TRC documented key historical issues that have contributed to major mental health disparities in Canada’s indigenous ...
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