Aboriginal Inequality

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In this Food, Health, and Wellbeing unit, I gained insight into the importance of food distribution to the health of Aboriginal communities and reflected on my own eating habits and health choices. First, I realized the inequality in food distribution that Aboriginal communities face. Due to factors such as geographic location, economic conditions, and cultural differences, many First Nations communities face the challenge of inadequate food availability or poor food quality. This inequality leads to inequalities in health status, exacerbating health problems among the Aboriginal population. Through my studies, I realized that food distribution is not just an economic or technical issue, but also a social justice issue that requires governments,

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Aboriginal Inequalities In Australia

Aboriginal people suffer great health inequalities in comparison to their non-Indigenous counterparts. Life expectancy data estimates between a 9.7/11.5 to 17-year gap between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal people experience the same fate in different states, suffering similar health inequalities. The literature suggests that Aboriginal Australians suffer from higher levels of psychological stress, discrimination, distress and trauma compared with other Australians. (Kingsley…

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Essay about Residential Schools

One of the greatest blemishes Canada has to do with ethnocentric behaviours is the use of residential schools to demolish the aboriginal culture. Canadian schools are now seen to provide learning activities and credentials (McClinchey, 2011). In the film education was viewed as a painful event that attempted to destroy a culture and was remembered for years. The aboriginal children were forced by law to go to these schools and had no contact with their family in order to conform them. These institutions…

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Social Inequality In Canada

Social inequalities exist within any prosperous community. Often caused by the lack of education and cultural influence, social inequality is “A condition in which members of society have differing amounts of wealth, prestige or power.” (Schaefer & Haaland 2015 pg 21) The lack of education stops and closes many doors to be self-sufficient. For this reason many opportunities and options that may help a person get out of social inequality are lost. Cultural influences play a major role in the inequalities…

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Aboriginal Health Care

Secondly, accessibility to healthcare is another key principle that many Aboriginals have still not fully obtained. Before Western culture took over First Nation’s ways of healthcare, Aboriginals did their healthcare in a holistic manner that took care of the person as a whole instead of solely working with their illness and symptoms (“Aboriginal Issues”). As result of Aboriginal people’s method of healthcare being stripped from them, “the loss of community-based social and health services disproportionately…

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Summary: Social Inequality In Canada

visual minority continue to face the harsh realities of their race, as the level of racism that is embedded in society and negative health outcomes interconnect. This correlation suggests that marginalized groups are more susceptible to health inequalities compared to the average Canadian (Power 2015). As the need for healthcare increases, many people are disadvantaged because of their position on the socio-economic ladder (Pederson and Raphael 2008:166). Social capital affects socio-economic status…

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Aboriginal Health Case Study

Social issues which impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people include education, health, housing and employment. 1. What is the difference between a. and a. Health: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience higher rates of chronic health conditions: Factors which impact their health include obesity, alcohol consumption and tobacco use. About 1 in 5 (20% or 97,100) Indigenous adults reported drinking alcohol at levels exceeding the lifetime risk guideline in the previous week…

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Meritocracy In Canada

successful. This would be true if Canada were a meritocracy. Meritocracy is defined as when advancement in society is based on individual ability or achievement rather than ones class or status. (Naiman, 2012, p. 218) However, after investigating social inequality and how a person’s positioning in the social categories of class, race and gender impact their opportunities, I feel compelled to make the argument that Canada is not a meritocracy…

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Essay about Aboriginal Women in Canada

The issue of violence against Aboriginal women is my chosen subtopic that strongly contributes to the history of Aboriginal women’s struggle for rights and identity in Canada. To search relevant newspaper articles for this topic, the databases that were used were Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, as well as Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies. The reason these two databases were chosen was because Canadian Newsstand offered articles from multiple newspapers in the country, therefore providing me with diverse…

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Aboriginal Health Effects

adults who were removed from their families as children, as a result of the stolen generation. These negative disadvantages and social inequalities can be categorized into subgroups, these include: a reduced life expectancy, inequalities due to geographical location, cultural and structural discrepancies or ignorance’s such as having no cultural sensitivity to Aboriginal people’s specific needs, long terms effects, physiological effect, social effects, and experience a high rate of racism. These sub…

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HSP Essay Plan Assessment 1

the Australian Aboriginal to be subjected to more racism, oppression and vilification than any other group within Australian society?and will discuss how this extraordinarily inhumane legislation was directly responsible for the Stolen Generation. Also illustrated will be the devastating effects of this injustice and how they are still being felt today. In 1869, disguising institutionalized racial discrimination, the "protection and management of the Aboriginal natives" Act (Aboriginal Protection Act…

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