Exploring the Intersection of Education and Indigenous Status from a Social Determinants of Health Perspective: Parent and Family Engagement in Secondary School in Nunavik

In Canada, Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellbeing is linked with the legacies of colonization. A social determinants of health model shifts focus from individual-level health contexts to broader socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental conditions associated with population health outcomes. Educa...

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Published in:International Indigenous Policy Journal
Main Authors: Ives, Nicole, Sinha, Vandna
Format: Report
Language:unknown
Published: Scholarship@Western 2016
Subjects:
Inuit youth
academic retention
family engagement
social determinants of health
Bilingual
Multilingual
and Multicultural Education
Family
Life Course
and Society
Other International and Area Studies
Social Work
Canada
Nunavik
inuit
Online Access:https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol7/iss4/4
https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2016.7.4.4
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Summary:In Canada, Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellbeing is linked with the legacies of colonization. A social determinants of health model shifts focus from individual-level health contexts to broader socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental conditions associated with population health outcomes. Education is a key social determinant of health, closely tied to both positive health outcomes and socioeconomic status. In communities across Canada, educational success remains out of reach for disproportionately large numbers of Indigenous youth and adults. This qualitative study examined the intersection of two social determinants of health—Indigenous status and education—by exploring educational engagement in secondary school for Inuit parents and families, secondary school students, educators, and other Inuit community members in an Inuit community in Nunavik, northern Quebec.

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