Women's Studies 2244 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Participant Observation, Focus Group, Condom

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2244
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

In search of a healing place: aboriginal women in vancouver"s downtown east side . Research on general health service delivery in urban areas of canada shows that. Aboriginal people face formidable barriers in accessing culturally appropriate and timely care. The purpose of this research was to address the gap in social science literature on how the health care concerns of aboriginal women are being met by urban. Aboriginal health centers: the research aimed to give voice to aboriginal women by asking them whether the appropriate professional services and educational programs they need to address their health care needs were being provided in the inner city. Introduction: aboriginal cad = more likely to live in single-parent families & have higher rates of unemployment + lower rates of edu, health status also relatively poor, aboriginal l. e. = 5+ years less compared to cad population: more than of aboriginal cad live in urban centers, and 2/3 live in western.