The health status of Indigenous adults has been deteriorating in Canada for over a decade, and socioeconomic inequalities in health among Indigenous Canadians have increased over time.

These were some of the findings in a paper recently published by Dalhousie researchers in the Health Policy journal.

“Socioeconomic inequalities in health among Indigenous peoples living off-reserve in Canada: Trends and determinants,” the only study of its kind in Canada, was recently published by Dal researchers Mohammad Hajizadeh (Health Administration), Min Hu (Economics), Amy Bombay (Psychiatry and Nursing) and Yukiko Asada (Community Health & Epidemiology).

Read the paper: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XWWpcP6mzq8H

The research was completed using three nationally representative Aboriginal Peoples Surveys (APS) (2001, 2006 and 2012). The APS looked at self-rated general health status among Indigenous adults living off-reserve in Canada. It encompassed three Indigenous populations (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) in different geographic regions across the country.

The study is a joint effort that is part of a bigger project funded by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, says Dr. Hajizadeh. Researchers analyzed data gathered from First N ...