Pages 832-833 in N. Murphy and A. Parkinson, eds. Circumpolar Health 2012: Circumpolar Health Comes Full Circle. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, August 5-10, 2012. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2013;72 (Suppl 1):832-833
Food Security and Nutrition Unit, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Division, First Nations and Inuit
Health Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON
Source
Pages 832-833 in N. Murphy and A. Parkinson, eds. Circumpolar Health 2012: Circumpolar Health Comes Full Circle. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, August 5-10, 2012. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2013;72 (Suppl 1):832-833
In Canada, food insecurity is much higher among
Aboriginal households than non-Aboriginal households and is especially pronounced in northern and isolated communities. The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (FNFNES) found that 41% of on-reserve British Columbia First Nations households.
were food insecure in 2008-2009 and that 38% of onreserve
Manitoba First Nations households were food
insecure in 2010. These prevalence rates are more than
5 times higher than those found among non-Aboriginal
households in both provinces in the 2007-2008 Canadian
Community Health Survey (1 ,2). Across the Canadian
Arctic in 2007- 2008, 63% of Inuit households were found
to be food insecure, with almost half (29%) severely food
insecure (3).