NBAPC HEALTH

NBAPC health activities will utilize a population health approach focusing on factors that influence the health of the population/community as a whole.  A population health approach identifies inequalities and finds ways to reduce the inequalities that exist and ways to improve the overall health of the community.  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.

NBAPC now has a Health Coordinator and a NBAPC Community Health Advisory Committee will be soon be established.   The Health Coordinator will work with the community to understand their health related needs and issues. In order to better understand these health needs and issues, a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) will be conducted and then a NBAPC Health and Wellness strategy will be developed.  

The NBAPC Health Coordinator will collaborate and partner with provincial, municipal and federal government departments, community partners and organizations, community health centres and clinics.  The coordinator will communicate the health needs and issues of the off reserve constituency to these partners and will stress the importance of incorporating culture and traditional health practices into services and programs.

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