Gender and place influences on health risk perspectives in northern Canadian Aboriginal communities

• Published in: Gender, Place & Culture
• Main Authors: Jardine, Cynthia G., Boyd, Amanda D., Furgal, Christopher M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2009
• Subjects: risk perspectives; risk perception; health; gender; place; Aboriginal; Canada; Other Sociology; Dettah; Nain; Northwest Territories; inuit
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/aprci/286; https://doi.org/10.1080/09663690902795837; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/aprci/article/1158/viewcontent/Gender_and_place_influences_on_health_risk_perspectives_in_Northern_Canadian_Aboriginal_communities.pdf

Developing a better understanding of the factors underlying health and environmental risk perspectives has been the focus of significant research in recent years. Although many previous studies have shown that perspectives of risk are often associated with gender, sociocultural variables and place,...