NBAPC HEALTH

NBAPC health activities utilizes a population health approach focusing on factors that influence the health of the off reserve community as a whole.  This approach will help to improve the overall health of the community/population as well as identify inequalities and gaps and ways to reduce the inequalities as well.  Health and health status are influenced by many factors; these factors are defined as determinants of health.  Determinants of health include the following:

Income and social status,

Social support networks, housing, education,

Employment and working conditions,

Physical environments, social environments,

Biology and Genetic endowment,

Personal health practices and coping skills, health services,

Healthy child development, gender, language and culture

The NBAPC Health Coordinator and Community Health Advisory- Working Group have been working hard on the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) .   The Health Coordinator continues to visit communities to better understand their health related needs and issues.  The Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) will be conducted using a survey; the surveys will be conducted face to face or in some cases, by telephone.  Survey participants will be asked to sign a consent form; the CHNA process will be confidential.  Once collected, the information/data results will then help to develop a NBAPC Health and Wellness strategy.  

The NBAPC Health Coordinator collaborates and partners with provincial, municipal and federal government departments, (potential) community partners and organizations, community health centres and clinics.  The health needs and issues of the off reserve constituency are shared and communicated to these departments, organizations and partners and stress the importance of understanding who the off reserve community are as well as the importance of incorporating culture and traditional health practices into services and programs.

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