This study explores relationships between selected social determinants of health and health outcomes for the
off-reserve First Nations population aged 15 and older. The data are from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey
(APS), and cover topics such as chronic conditions, smoking, alcohol consumption, access to health care, food
insecurity, housing conditions and overall general health.
Health is heavily influenced by the social conditions in which people live, work, grow and are born into (World
Health Organization 2013). This includes the lived experiences of Aboriginal people and the influence of their
cultural contexts. The Integrated Life Course and Social Determinants Model of Aboriginal Health framework
(Reading and Wien 2009) is applied as an analytical guideline in this paper in exploring the relationships between
social determinants of health and health outcomes for First Nations people living off reserve. This framework
examines health determinants using the following categories: proximal (health behaviours, physical and social
environment), intermediate (community infrastructure, resources, systems and capacities), and distal (historic,
political, social and economic) determinants of health.
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| Date | 12 avril 2016 |
