From Embedded in Place to Marginalized Out and Back Again: Indigenous Peoples’ Experience of Health in Canada

Place, Health, and Diversity: Learning from the Canadian Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 29-52

  Castleden, Heather ^a   Martinv, Debbie ^b   Lewis, Diana ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 85160693661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315600598-3     Document Type: Chapter

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