The Health Council of Canada has just released a major study and report entitled "Understanding and Improving Aboriginal Maternal and Child Health in Canada", available on the Health Council's website, here. The Council also just released a short video highlighting one of the promising practices. You can see that video here.
The report highlights the challenges and frustrations faced by First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities, particularly mothers and young children, and those who support them. We all know about the great health disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people; this documents looks squarely at the problems, but also the solutions, and profiles a number of best practices that Stonecircle identified and wrote up as part of our work on this project.
We hope this report will be widely seen and distributed to policy makers, government leaders and the non-Aboriginal medical and health profession as a clear picture of the shocking disparities and the innovative anwork being done by communities and organizations to improve the lives of Aboriginal families.
P.S. Stonecircle gets a brief mention, see page 17 :)
The report highlights the challenges and frustrations faced by First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities, particularly mothers and young children, and those who support them. We all know about the great health disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people; this documents looks squarely at the problems, but also the solutions, and profiles a number of best practices that Stonecircle identified and wrote up as part of our work on this project.
We hope this report will be widely seen and distributed to policy makers, government leaders and the non-Aboriginal medical and health profession as a clear picture of the shocking disparities and the innovative anwork being done by communities and organizations to improve the lives of Aboriginal families.
P.S. Stonecircle gets a brief mention, see page 17 :)
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