Fact Sheet: Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in the Atlantic Region
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Measured nutritional health of Indigenous children under 5 and Indigenous women 14 to 49. Focused on: nutritional status, prevalence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in women, child hospitalization, prevalence of tuberculosis and malaria in women, access to health services and programs, and characteristics of the domestic economy and diet.
Study examines the reasons for growth of number of institutions offering services such as cheque cashing, payday loans and income tax refund loans.
Developed to address problems of youth suicide and substance abuse through a sense of cultural belonging and revitalization.