SOWK 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canada A National Rugby Union Team, Leonard Marchand, Celery

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 1000
• Professor: Alexandra Wright

Document Summary

4 pillars of social work: social and economic equality, dignity of people, environmental sustainability, human rights and social inclusion. Why is tuberculosis higher in first nations" areas. Rate in first nations - 10 times higher than in the canadian population. Rate in inuit communities in 2010 increasing - 185 times the national rate when the rate in canada was declining. Concerns that tb may be dismissed as disease of the past and no longer a problem (but it still exists) It"s always more than just the disease, it"s a social aspect. 3 peoples recognized in section 35 of the constitution (1982) The term first nations came into common use in the 1970s to replace the term indian. The collective term includes multiple nations; there are currently for than 600 first nations recognized by the federal government. Inuit are the aboriginal people of arctic canada. Territories, nunavut, northern parts of qu bec and throughout northern and central.