Developing a Policy to Address Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care
Theses
Author/Creator
Michelle J. Buchholz
Description
Public Policy Thesis (MPP)--Simon Fraser University, 2019.
Looks at the prevalence and mortality rates of diabetes mellitus in First Nations people in Ontario.
Chapter 13 from Diabetes in Ontario: an ICES Practice Atlas edited by Janet E. Hux, Gillian L. Booth, Pamela Ml Slaughter and Andreas Laupacis.
Authors note that Canada’s new Healthy Eating Strategy does not address social determinants of health (childhood environments, gender, Indigenous status, income, education and occupation) as root causes of poor diet quality; they suggest that a reduction of diet inequities will require policy change.