Kica-wasimisinanahk Miyo-ayawin ~ Our Children's Health. Promoting Physical Activity and Nutrition Through a Health Promoting School-Based Intervention in a Métis Community

• Main Author: Oosman, Sarah
• Other Authors: Chad, Karen, Smylie, Janet, Dyck, Roland, Humbert, Louise, Henry, Carol, Sheppard, Suzanne, Abonyi, Sylvia
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2012
• Subjects: Health promotion; Aboriginal health; Métis child health; obesity; type 2 diabetes; physical activity; nutrition; participatory action research; accelerometry; photovoice; Canada; Toth; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2012-03-403

First Nations and Métis children living in Canada continue to experience disproportionately high levels of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to the general Canadian child population (Young 2003; Oster and Toth 2009). Evidence supports the need to develop and implement culture-based physical...