Exposure to Environmental Contaminants and Stress as Determinants of Health in Three Communities: Walpole Island and Attawapiskat First Nations and Naivasha, Kenya

• Main Author: Henley, Deirdre Phaedra
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2014
• Subjects: biomonitoring; community-based participatory research; trace metals; persistent organic pollutants; hair cortisol; chronic stress; Environmental Health; Attawapiskat; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2144; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/etd/article/3554/viewcontent/HENLEY_thesis__09_07_14_.pdf

This project is an interdisciplinary, community-based, participatory Ecosystem Health investigation with two First Nations in Canada, one located in the far south (Walpole Island; WIFN) and one in the far north (Attawapiskat; AttFN), and a large Kenyan community surrounding Lake Naivasha. The increa...