Vulnerable Populations

This chapter of "Poverty in Canada" discusses how poverty impacts health and quality of life for individuals in Canada Raphael, D. (2020). Chapter 8 Poverty and Health. In Poverty in Canada: Implications for health and quality of life (pp. 227–262). essay, Canadian Scholars.

This review examines how poverty affects health and end-of-life care Rowley J, Richards N, Carduff E, Gott M. The impact of poverty and deprivation at the end of life: a critical review. Palliative Care and Social Practice. 2021;15. doi:10.1177/26323524211033873

Bowker, S. L., Williams, K., Wingert, A., Boyd, J. M., Potestio, M. L., Gates, M., Wright, E., & Bagshaw, S. M. (2022). Incidence and outcomes of critical illness in Indigenous Peoples: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 11, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-022-01948-x

Hatala, A. R., Njeze, C., Morton, D., Pearl, T., & Bird-Naytowhow, K. (2020). Land and nature as sources of health and resilience among Indigenous youth in an urban Canadian context: a photovoice exploration. BMC Public Health, 20, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08647-z

Durand-Moreau, Q., Lafontaine, J., & Ward, J. (2022). Work and health challenges of indigenous people in Canada. The Lancet Global Health, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00203-0

Aziz, H., Marchand, M., Pop, C., King, A., Anand, S. S., Arbour, L., Atzema, C., Spaziano, M., Merveille, N., Filimon, S., Poirier, P., & Huynh, T. (2022). A call to action: Optimizing Indigenous Cardiovascular Health in Canada. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 38(10), 1584–1587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2022.06.011

A powerful TED talk "If You Want to Help Me, Prescribe Me Money": Toward a radical rethinking of social issues in medical care. YouTube. (2013). Retrieved November 13, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLRT0bvaz98&feature=youtu.be.

Background The history of residential schools has been identified as having long lasting and intergenerational effects on the physical and mental well-being of Indigenous populations in Canada. Wilk, P., Maltby, A., & Cooke, M. (2017). Residential schools and the effects on indigenous health and well-being in Canada—a scoping review. Public Health Reviews, 38(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-017-0055-6

Indigenous Services Canada. (2018, February). Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease in First Nations Communities: A Guidance Framework. Retrieved November 13, 2022, from https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/aanc-inac/H34-313-1-2017-eng.pdf

National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. (2019). Access to health services as a social determinant of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Health. Retrieved November 13, 2022, from https://nccah-ccnsa.ca/docs/fact%20sheets/social%20determinates/Access%20to%20Health%20Services_Eng%202010.pdf

CBC/Radio Canada. (2020, February 3). The health cost of being poor | CBC radio. CBCnews. Retrieved November 13, 2022, from https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/the-health-cost-of-being-poor-1.5449683 People living in low-income neighbourhoods are at higher risk of dying from preventable diseases than people in more affluent circumstances.

Health Quality Ontario. Income and Health: Health Equity in Ontario. Toronto: Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2016.

Clark B, Preto N. Exploring the concept of vulnerability in health care. CMAJ 2018;190:E308–9.

Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (Public Health Ontario), Tyler I, Hassen N. Priority populations project: understanding and identifying priority populations for public health in Ontario. Toronto, ON: Queen's Printer for Ontario; 2015.

Khanassov, V., Pluye, P., Descoteaux, S., Haggerty, J. L., Russell, G., Gunn, J., & Levesque, J.-F. (2016, October 10). Organizational interventions improving access to community-based primary health care for vulnerable populations: A scoping review - international journal for equity in health. BioMed Central. Retrieved November 10, 2022, from https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0459-9