Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Environmental factors play a critical role in the health and well-being of people worldwide and the distribution of the burden of disease associated with environmental causes is disproportionately high in marginalized populations, including First Nations. In this way, environmental health problems are as much social and political problems as environmental and must be addressed as such.… more Full Text: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY WITH MISSISSAUGA FIRST NATION A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in …