Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health

Now in its second edition, this collection explores how multiple health determinants, such as colonialism, gender, culture, early childhood development, the environment, geography, HIV/AIDS, medicine, and policy, impact the health status of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Grounded in expert voices of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis writers from coast to coast, this updated edition includes a chapter on environment and land defense; a foreword written by Dr. Evan Adams, Chief Medical Officer of the First Nations Health Authority; chapters by Liz Howard and Helen Knott, Indigenous poets; and an updated arrangement that reflects the significant social and political events that dominated headlines over the last two years, such as the protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, the US national election of 2016, the Indigenous youth suicide epidemic, and the enquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada. This revolutionary book is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in courses on health, public and population health, community health sciences, medicine, nursing, and social work.

Praise for the first edition: ""Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada is a remarkable text, beautifully woven from authentic stories with current academic knowledge and impeccable wisdom."" - Trudy Pauluth-Penner, University of Victoria

Margo Greenwood is a Professor of Education and First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia.Sarah de Leeuw is an Associate Professor in the Northern Medical Program at the University of Northern British Columbia and an Associate Professor in the School of Public and Population Health in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.Nicole Marie Lindsay is a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and a Research Associate at the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health.