Determinants of Food Choices in Arctic Populations
Theses
Author/Creator
Susie Bernier
Description
Social and Preventative Medicine Thesis (M.Sc.)--Laval University, 2003.
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.