An examination of the social determinants of health as factors related to health, healing and prevention of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in a northern context – the brightening our home fires project, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Dorothy Badry, Aileen Wight Felske
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2013
• Subjects: foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; prevention; social determinants of health; Northwest Territories; women’s health; qualitative research; alcohol; northern health; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Yellowknife; Canada; Ulukhaktok; Circumpolar Health; International Journal of Circumpolar Health; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21140; https://doaj.org/article/7952610566d24029a1bfda1bb455893d

Objective. The Brightening Our Home Fires (BOHF) project was conceptualized as an exploratory project to examine the issue of the prevention of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) from a women’s health perspective in the Northwest Territories (NT). While dominant discourse suggests th...