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HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 403-411Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.07.004
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Aboriginal health; Critical population health; Environmental dispossession; Social determinants of health; Canada
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Environmental dispossession disproportionately affects the health of Canada's Aboriginal population, yet little is known about how its effects are Sustained over time. We use a critical population health approach to explore the determinants of health in rural and remote First Nation and Inuit communities, and to conceptualize the pathways by which environmental dispossession affects these health determinants. We draw from narrative analysis of interviews with 26 Community Health Representatives (CHRs) from First Nation and Inuit communities across Canada. CHRs identified six health determinants: balance, life control, education, material resources, social resources, and environmental/cultural connections. CHRs articulated the role of the physical environment for health as inseparable from that of their cultures. Environmental dispossession was defined as a process with negative consequences for health, particularly in the social environment. Health research should focus on understanding linkages between environmental dispossession, cultural identity, and the social determinants of health. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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