Giving voice to food insecurity in a remote indigenous community in subarctic Ontario, Canada: Traditional ways, ways to cope, ways forward

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Skinner, Kelly ^a   Hanning, Rhona M ^a   Desjardins, Ellen ^a   Tsuji, Leonard J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Coping strategies; First Nations; Food security; Nutrition policy; Poverty; Remote

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CANADA; CATERING SERVICE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; ESKIMO; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ARCTIC REGIONS; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; POPULATION GROUPS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876867080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-427     Document Type: Article

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