Policy (Mis)Alignment: Addressing Type 2 Diabetes in Aboriginal Communities in Canada
In this article, we employ Bacchi’s (1999) What’s the Problem approach to policy analysis to examine Health Canada’s Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI) and the ways in which it articulates with existing federal policies that relate to three Aboriginal social determinants of health: colonialism, ed...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:ef644e884e5d41ca87653ae4fbe24db3 2023-05-15T16:14:00+02:00 Policy (Mis)Alignment: Addressing Type 2 Diabetes in Aboriginal Communities in Canada Lauren A. Brooks Francine E. Darroch Audrey R. Giles 2013-05-01 https://doaj.org/article/ef644e884e5d41ca87653ae4fbe24db3 en eng University of Western Ontario 1916-5781 https://doaj.org/article/ef644e884e5d41ca87653ae4fbe24db3 undefined International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol 4, Iss 2, p 3 (2013) Type 2 diabetes First Nations Aboriginal social determinants of health policy analysis Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative scipo demo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2013 fttriple 2023-01-22T19:23:40Z In this article, we employ Bacchi’s (1999) What’s the Problem approach to policy analysis to examine Health Canada’s Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI) and the ways in which it articulates with existing federal policies that relate to three Aboriginal social determinants of health: colonialism, education, and health care. Focusing our analysis on the Aboriginal population with the highest prevalence of type 2 diabetes, First Nations, we argue that the ADI produces type 2 diabetes as a problem related to First Nations peoples’ apparently poor health decision making and lifestyle choices. Such a framing of the problem ignores the ways in which current federal policies are aligned in a way that undermines attempts, like the ADI, to improve First Nations peoples’ health. We argue that for rates of type 2 diabetes to decrease in First Nations communities, the federal government needs to re-align policies that affect all of the Aboriginal social determinants of health so that the startling inequities in health that exist between First Nations peoples and non-First Nations peoples, particularly those related to type 2 diabetes, can be addressed in a more effective fashion. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Unknown Canada |
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In this article, we employ Bacchi’s (1999) What’s the Problem approach to policy analysis to examine Health Canada’s Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI) and the ways in which it articulates with existing federal policies that relate to three Aboriginal social determinants of health: colonialism, education, and health care. Focusing our analysis on the Aboriginal population with the highest prevalence of type 2 diabetes, First Nations, we argue that the ADI produces type 2 diabetes as a problem related to First Nations peoples’ apparently poor health decision making and lifestyle choices. Such a framing of the problem ignores the ways in which current federal policies are aligned in a way that undermines attempts, like the ADI, to improve First Nations peoples’ health. We argue that for rates of type 2 diabetes to decrease in First Nations communities, the federal government needs to re-align policies that affect all of the Aboriginal social determinants of health so that the startling inequities in health that exist between First Nations peoples and non-First Nations peoples, particularly those related to type 2 diabetes, can be addressed in a more effective fashion. |
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Policy (Mis)Alignment: Addressing Type 2 Diabetes in Aboriginal Communities in Canada |
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Policy (Mis)Alignment: Addressing Type 2 Diabetes in Aboriginal Communities in Canada |
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Policy (Mis)Alignment: Addressing Type 2 Diabetes in Aboriginal Communities in Canada |
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Policy (Mis)Alignment: Addressing Type 2 Diabetes in Aboriginal Communities in Canada |
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University of Western Ontario |
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