Health Disparities
This indicator of child health is higher among Aboriginal children than non-Aboriginal children in Canada.
What is infant mortality?
This historical system forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families to assimilate them.
What are residential schools?
This proximal determinant includes having enough nutritious food and is often compromised in Indigenous communities.
What is food security?
These two scholars authored the 2012 article on social determinants and Aboriginal children’s health.
Who are Margo Greenwood and Sarah de Leeuw?
Aboriginal children experience higher rates of this chronic disease, often linked to food insecurity and lifestyle changes.
What is Type 2 diabetes?
This federal legislation created reserves and heavily restricted Indigenous governance and rights.
What is the Indian Act?
This intermediate determinant—language, ceremony, identity—is associated with lower youth suicide rates.
What is cultural continuity?
This three-level framework organizes determinants as distal, intermediate, and proximal.
What is the layered determinants model (or SDOH framework)?
This mental health outcome is disproportionately high among Indigenous youth in Canada.
What is suicide?
This ongoing structural force is identified as a root cause of health inequities for Aboriginal children.
What is colonialism?
This proximal factor, when inadequate, contributes to respiratory issues and injuries among children.
What is housing?
This journal published the article in 2012.
What is Paediatrics & Child Health?
Aboriginal children have lower rates of accessing this type of healthcare provider.
What is a doctor (or physician)?
This form of discrimination, including microaggressions in healthcare, negatively affects diagnosis and treatment.
What is racism?
These community-level resources (clinics, schools, recreation) are shaped by distal forces and affect health access.
What is community infrastructure?
Who is the main character in "The Curse Of The Cheese Pyramid"
What is Geronimo Stilton?