Setting the Context

Achieving Strength Through Numbers: First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health Information
A fact sheet on the challenges regarding data and Aboriginal population health in Canada.

 

 

The Aboriginal Health Legislation and Policy Framework in Canada
A synopsis of the NCCAH report Looking for Aboriginal Health in Legislation and Policies, 1970-2008: The Policy Synthesis Project, which tracks Aboriginal-specific policies and legislation to 2008, providing evidence that Aboriginal health policy in Canada largely remains a patchwork, and highlighting significant gaps and jurisdictional issues.

Child and Youth Health


Inuit child health
The NCCAH has released a series of fact sheets for 2011/2012 that make significant contributions to an understanding of Inuit worldviews at the heart of Inuit well-being. Inuit knowledge, or Inuit Quajimajatuqangit, is a dynamic and living knowledge system, key not only to a 'cultural health' approach to the well-being of Inuit children, families and communities in Canada - but also to survival of Inuit in a changing contemporary context.  The series looks at:   

• Inunnguiniq: Caring for children the Inuit way (also in Inuktitut)
• Inutsiaqpagutit: That which enables you to have a good life - Supporting Inuit early life health (also in Inuktitut) 
• Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: The role of Indigenous knowledge in supporting wellness in Inuit communities in Nunavut (also in Inuktitut).

 

Aboriginal children and child protection services in Canada
This NCCAH fact sheet series, published in 2009, addresses the following:

• Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Children in Child Protection Services
• Child Welfare Services in Canada: Aboriginal and Mainstream
• The Importance of Disaggregated Data
• Reconciliation in Aboriginal Child Welfare and Child Health
• Understanding Neglect in Aboriginal Families

The missing picture in Métis health...
Unlike status First Nations and Inuit peoples, Métis do not have access to federal health services and benefits. The barriers to health information are outlined in an NCCAH fact sheet that explores underlying factors behind the lack of Métis-specific health data and information. Two additional fact sheets build on findings of the 2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) to examine the nutritional habits of Métis children, youth and infants:

• Paucity of Métis-specific health and well-being data and information: underlying factors 
• The nutritional habits of Métis children and youth in Canada: A preliminary examination
• The nutritional habits of Métis infants and young children in Canada: a preliminary examination

Social Determinants

This series of fact sheets, released in 2009, incorporates recent statistical information and data relevant to First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples to address key social determinants of health. Additional topics are currently being developed for release in 2010/2011. Now available:

• Culture and Language as Social Determinants of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health
• Economic Development as a Social Determinant of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health
• Education as a Social Determinant of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health
• Employment as a Social Determinant of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health
• Family Violence as a Social Determinant of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health
• Housing as a Social Determinant for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health
• Poverty as a Social Determinant for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health