Shameful Neglect: Indigenous Child Poverty in Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
David Macdonald
Daniel Wilson
Study results support the need for preventive and public health programs to improve maternal and infant well-being.
NOTE: Also published as Journal of Aboriginal Health, Summer, 2015.
Study reports family and peer influences play a large role in smoking uptake among Indigenous youth.
To accompany book about the young activist from Attawapiskat, Ontario who campaigned for a new school to replace one that had been contaminated by a massive diesel leak in the late 1970s.
Related material Still Waiting in Attawapiskat video.
Focus is on parenting children from birth to age seven. Developed through literature review, advisory input and interviews with key informants.