Root Causes of Oppression
This is a community with less than 10,000 people with fewer than half of the population commuting to urban centres for work.
What is rural community?
This is the percentage of First Nation communities that are only accessible by air or ice road.
What is 25%?
This is the primary challenge in rural and remote locations, where there are fewer healthcare facilities, often leading to delays in diagnosis, treatment, and emergencies.
What is limited access to healthcare?
This is a facility that is not readily available to individuals living in remote, rural, and northern communities which involves moving your body.
What is Fitness Spaces?
This is the major thing that some communities in Northern Ontario lack when trying to use telemedicine?
What is internet?
This is a social determinant of health that is a root cause of oppression for people living in nothern, rural and remote locations.
What is geographical location?
This is population quadrupled in rural Ontario from 1986 to 2021?
What is the Indigenous population?
In small, rural communities, maintaining this can be difficult due to everyone knwoing everyone, which can also challenge professional boundaries.
What is confidentiality?
This is a mobile unit that provides healthcare services to residents in the district of Manitoulin including referrals and psychiatric support and follow-up.
What is Mobile Wellness?
This is a health related issue causing the highest increase of death from in Northern Ontario compared to the rest of the province.
What is opioid addiction?
This is a financial problem for those living in northern, rural, and remote locations caused by the government.
What is chronic underfunding?
These are the parameters that qualify northern communities for food subsidies.
What is the lack of road, rail or marine access?
This is a specific type of formal training for nurses which is needed to address unique ethical dillemas they face.
What is ethics training?
This is an online resource for individuals living in small, rural, northern and remote areas of Ontario to aid in accessing online education and training to retain a job or advance careers without leaving the community.
What is Contact North?
This is the main reason behind the high rate of opioid deaths in Northern Ontario.
What is isolation?