In this video, Charlotte Loppie’s explanation of the structural elements of health disparities helps provide a framework for understanding why health inequities persist despite decades of well-intentioned policies and programs that have aimed to address the chronic illnesses and health issues faced by many Indigenous communities. She uses the metaphor of a tree to explain how three separate, but interdependent components of society work together to shape and structure the context of health outcomes. This video relates to chapter 1 of the textbook Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada: Beyond the Social.
The NCCIH has developed Beyond the Social: Author Interviews, a series of eleven videos featuring interviews with some of the authors and editors of Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada: Beyond the Social. The videos offer real-world insight and perspective that illuminate key concepts in the book, but they can also be used as stand-alone learning tools for anyone teaching or promoting Indigenous health and well-being. Follow the links below to view the other videos.
Related Links
Video Series
- Introduction - Rethinking Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada, with Sarah de Leeuw and Margo Greenwood
- Chapter 1 - Structural Determinants of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health, with Charlotte Loppie
- Chapter 2 - Two-Eyed Seeing in Medicine, with Albert Marshall
- Chapter 3 - Inuit Knowledge Systems, Elders, and Determinants of Health: Harmony, Balance, and the role of Holistic Thinking, with Shirley Tagalik
- Chapter 7 - Being at the Interface: Early Childhood as a Determinant of Health with Margo Greenwood
- Chapter 9 - Activating Place: Geography as a Determinant of Indigenous Peoples' Health and Well-being, with Sarah de Leeuw
- Chapter 13 - Ascribed Health and Wellness, Achieved Health and Wellness: Shifting the Paradigm, with Madeleine Dion Stout
- Chapter 15 - Reshaping the Politics of Health: A Personal Perspective, with Warner Adam
- Chapter 18 - Knowing Who You Are: Family History and Aboriginal Determinants of Health, with Brenda Macdougall
- Chapter 19 - Practising "the Good Way of Life" from the Hospital Bed to Mother Earth, with Patricia and James Makokis
- Beyond the Social Panel from the NCCAH National Forum "Transforming our Realities" held Dec. 2-3, 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario