From the website: Obesity is an important health issue among First Nations, Inuit and Métis populations. Self-reported data from 2007 show that obesity rates are higher among off-reserve Aboriginal adults compared to non-Aboriginal people (24.8% vs. 16.6%). Indeed, self-reported data from the 2002/03 First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey demonstrate that prevalence of obesity is particularly high among on-reserve First Nations people: 31.8% of adult men, 41.1% of adult women, 14.0% of youth and 36.2% of children were considered obese.
From the website: But four-time Canadian Olympian Sharon Firth, a member of the Dene Nation who competed for Canada in the 1970s and 1980s, said Wednesday that she applauds Hooper for standing up for indigenous people worldwide.
From the website: Other Canadian Aboriginal Olympians are:
Sharon and Shirley Firth (Gwich’in), twin sisters who competed in the 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 Games in cross-country skiing;
Theoren Fleury (Métis/Cree), who won a gold medal in 2002 in ice hockey,
Carolyn Darbyshire-McRorie (Métis), who won a silver medal in curling in 2010.
Waneek Horn-Miller (Mohawk) co-captained the Canadian Women’s water polo team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Type 2 Diabetes is a health concern among Canada's First Nations and Inuit. First Nations on reserve have a rate of diabetes three to five times higher than that of other Canadians. Rates of diabetes among the Inuit are expected to rise significantly in the future given that risk factors such as obesity, physical inactivity, and unhealthy eating patterns are high.
From the document: This report was prepared under contract with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and supported by grants from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec, the Conseil québecois de la recherche sociale, and the Institute for Aboriginal Peoples Health of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. These agencies, however, bear no responsibility for its content.
From the document: Prepared by by Kahui Tautoko Consulting Ltd for the Fraser Region Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Collaborative.
This report was adapted from the document Strengthening the Safety Net: a Report on the Suicide Prevention, intervention and Postvention Initiative for BC (2009). It has been adapted for a Fraser region perspective.
From the document: This review was undertaken under a contract with the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada by Laurence Kirmayer with the assistance of staff and students attached to the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit (CMHRU) of the Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital. The CMHRU conducts research on the mental health of Indigenous peoples, mental health services for immigrants and refugees, cultural determinants of health behaviors, psychiatry in medicine, and the anthropology of psychiatry. The CMHRU is the lead centre for the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research (NAMHR), which greatly facilitated this work.
