Indigenous Health in Canada: Integration of Community-Based Environmental, Health, Medical, Natural and Social Sciences Research to Mitigate Disparities in Wellness
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 379
Special Issue Editors
Interests: one health (ecosystem health) research in partnership with First Nations in Canada; food chain integrity, food and water safety; mechanisms of toxicity of endogenous and exogenous compounds that occur as environmental and food contaminants; human toxicity of many classes of environmental contaminants including polycyclic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons (dioxins, furans, PCBs), metals and metalloids, pesticides, and intermediary metabolites of plants and microorganisms; environmental toxicology; toxication and detoxication mechanisms; associations between psychosocial stress, environmental contamination and chronic disease, particularly in marginalized communities
Interests: Indigenous languages (Cree, Anishinaabemowin); Indigenous Knowledge; social change; residential mobility; traditional medicine; ecosystem health; identity; history of anthropology and linguistics; cross-cultural mis-communication; ethnohistory; medical anthropology; qualitative ethnographic methods; and community-based models of collaborative research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Professors Jack Bend and Regna Darnell are organizing a Special Issue on “Indigenous Health in Canada: Integration of Participatory Community-Based Environmental, Health, Medical, Natural and/or Social Sciences Research to Mitigate Disparities in Wellness” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). IJERPH is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes research articles examining the intersection of the environment in its broadest definition and public health. For detailed information regarding the journal, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
André Picard, a well-known Canadian health columnist, stated recently that Indigenous health is the most urgent problem in Canada. The Indigenous or Aboriginal population living in Canada includes First Nations, Métis, and Inuit. The marked differences in wellness between Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous communities in Canada are well-documented, and they include an incidence of type 2 diabetes that is 5- to 8-fold higher amongst the Indigenous than in the general Canadian population. Moreover, drinking water safety remains an issue on First Nations reserves. The 2011 report of the Auditor General of Canada pointed out that more than 50% of these water systems pose a medium or high health risk to their users. Health Canada has recently described the major determinants of health in Canada to be: income and social status; employment and working conditions; education and literacy; childhood experiences; physical environments; social supports and coping skills; healthy behaviours; access to health services; biology and genetic endowment; gender; and culture (https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promotion/population-health/what-determines-health.html) (Accessed Jan 18, 2019). Each of these falls within our broad definition of the physical and social environment.
This Issue will highlight new and traditional research and analyses on the environmental (social and physical) determinants of health amongst the Indigenous in Canada, with the goal of identifying how best to increase their wellness. Original research papers, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, case studies, conceptual frameworks, commentaries, editorials, and policy-relevant articles are solicited for this Issue. Of special interest are articles outlining novel approaches to solving these complex problems that are community-based.
The link for the Special Issue can be found: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/IHIC. Please note that articles in IJERPH Special Issues are published continuously (as soon as accepted) and posted online, so it is encouraged to submit at any time between now and next November.
Prof. Jack R. Bend
Prof. Regna Darnell
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multidisciplinary research
- benefits of research
- environmental contaminants
- safe food and water
- chronic diseases, integration of health, medical, natural, and social sciences research
- participatory community-based research
- environmental (social and physical) determinants of wellness
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