GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Infant Mortality, Chlordane, Toronto Star
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Flip forward to p. 179 in the textbook and examine figure 5. 26, which shows the "language. It is evident that the linguistic division runs more or less along the same lines as the dividing line between higher and lower life expectancies, and between higher and lower rates of mortality from respiratory illnesses. Evidently, it is rather difficult to make such a determination. For our second example of how complex the relationship between geography and health is, we turn to an analysis of the health status of canada"s aboriginal population. The textbook briefly mentions that first nations canadians have among the lowest (pp. Other troubling facts about the health of native canadians, according to the 2004 report improving the health of. The report attributes the shockingly poor health status of aboriginal canadians to the fact that, "[i]n general, aboriginal peoples experience worse social, economic and environmental conditions than [] non-aboriginal people. "
