From the website:聽Obesity is an important health issue among First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis populations. Self-reported data from 2007 show that obesity rates are higher among off-reserve Aboriginal adults compared to non-Aboriginal people (24.8% vs. 16.6%). Indeed, self-reported data from the 2002/03 First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey demonstrate that prevalence of obesity is particularly high among on-reserve First Nations people: 31.8% of adult men, 41.1% of adult women, 14.0% of youth and 36.2% of children were considered obese.
From the website:聽But four-time Canadian Olympian Sharon Firth, a member of the Dene Nation who competed for Canada in the 1970s and 1980s, said Wednesday that she applauds Hooper for standing up for indigenous people worldwide.
From the website:聽Other Canadian Aboriginal Olympians are:
Sharon and Shirley Firth (Gwich鈥檌n), twin sisters who competed in the 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 Games in cross-country skiing;
Theoren Fleury (M茅tis/Cree), who won a gold medal in 2002 in ice hockey,
Carolyn Darbyshire-McRorie (M茅tis), who won a silver medal in curling in 2010.
Waneek Horn-Miller (Mohawk) co-captained the Canadian Women鈥檚 water polo team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Type 2 Diabetes is a health concern among Canada's First Nations and Inuit. First Nations on reserve have a rate of diabetes three to five times higher than that of other Canadians. Rates of diabetes among the Inuit are expected to rise significantly in the future given that risk factors such as obesity, physical inactivity, and unhealthy eating patterns are high.
From the document:聽This report was prepared under contract with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and supported by聽grants from the Fonds de la recherche en sant茅 du Qu茅bec, the Conseil qu茅becois de la recherche sociale,聽and the Institute for Aboriginal Peoples Health of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. These聽agencies, however, bear no responsibility for its content.
From the document:聽Prepared by by Kahui Tautoko Consulting Ltd for the Fraser Region Aboriginal Youth Suicide聽Prevention Collaborative.
This report was adapted from the document Strengthening the Safety Net: a Report on the Suicide聽Prevention, intervention and Postvention Initiative for BC (2009). It has been adapted for a Fraser聽region perspective.
From the document:聽This review was undertaken under a contract with the First Nations and Inuit Health聽Branch of Health Canada by Laurence Kirmayer with the assistance of staff and students聽attached to the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit (CMHRU) of the Department of聽Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital. The CMHRU conducts research on the mental聽health of Indigenous peoples, mental health services for immigrants and refugees,聽cultural determinants of health behaviors, psychiatry in medicine, and the anthropology聽of psychiatry. The CMHRU is the lead centre for the National Network for Aboriginal聽Mental Health Research (NAMHR), which greatly facilitated this work.
