“Is it Safe?” Risk Perception and Drinking Water in a Vulnerable Population
Access to safe drinking water is a pressing social policy issue globally. Despite the milestones reached in this area of Canadian public health, marginalized and vulnerable populations, including those founded on racialized identity, such as First Nations, continue to be plagued by accessibility iss...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:67eff57a45bf4f07a6f174e04325912f 2023-05-15T16:15:12+02:00 “Is it Safe?” Risk Perception and Drinking Water in a Vulnerable Population Nicholas Spence Dan Walters 2012-11-01 https://doaj.org/article/67eff57a45bf4f07a6f174e04325912f en eng University of Western Ontario 1916-5781 https://doaj.org/article/67eff57a45bf4f07a6f174e04325912f undefined International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol 3, Iss 3, p 9 (2012) Safe water environment health risk perception risk communication risk management vulnerable populations race/ethnicity social policy inequality First Nations Canada envir hisphilso Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2012 fttriple 2023-01-22T18:24:31Z Access to safe drinking water is a pressing social policy issue globally. Despite the milestones reached in this area of Canadian public health, marginalized and vulnerable populations, including those founded on racialized identity, such as First Nations, continue to be plagued by accessibility issues. This work sheds new perspective on the issue, arguing for a research and policy focus that is inclusive of risk perception. A model of risk perception of drinking water is developed and tested for First Nations on reserve in Canada using the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey. It is shown that the analytical use of racialized identity advances understanding of risk perception and the environment (water). Moreover, a large degree of heterogeneity within the First Nation population across a number of social determinants of risk perception illustrates the shortcomings of framing the issue in a simplistic manner (First Nation population versus general population). Implications for risk research, including risk communication & management, and policy are provided. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Unknown Canada |
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Access to safe drinking water is a pressing social policy issue globally. Despite the milestones reached in this area of Canadian public health, marginalized and vulnerable populations, including those founded on racialized identity, such as First Nations, continue to be plagued by accessibility issues. This work sheds new perspective on the issue, arguing for a research and policy focus that is inclusive of risk perception. A model of risk perception of drinking water is developed and tested for First Nations on reserve in Canada using the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey. It is shown that the analytical use of racialized identity advances understanding of risk perception and the environment (water). Moreover, a large degree of heterogeneity within the First Nation population across a number of social determinants of risk perception illustrates the shortcomings of framing the issue in a simplistic manner (First Nation population versus general population). Implications for risk research, including risk communication & management, and policy are provided. |
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“Is it Safe?” Risk Perception and Drinking Water in a Vulnerable Population |
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University of Western Ontario |
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